TextMarks has launched this new service which allows bloggers to either charge $4.99 or $9.99 per month to their readers to get these instantaneous alerts.
It’s currently only available to US cell phone users on Cingular, Verizon, Sprint or Alltel.
I’m not sure it’d work for the majority of blogs as an income stream – but for those who break news that people must know – then it could be a worthwhile monetization stream to look into.
How much do bloggers make from TextMarks subscriptions? From reading the Terms of Use it seems that publishers only make 30% of the subscription (while I know they’d have costs and the carriers take their cut it seems a little low for my liking – as a content provider I’d be hoping to make as much out of it as the carriers themselves (who can make as much as 50% by the looks of things).
Some questions for readers:
- Would you pay for this type of service?
- What type of blogs/sites would you pay for this type of service on?
- Do you think your readers would pay for it?
Via TechCrunch
