is there any web host, domain name registuring web site with accept amazon fps ?

I’m looking forward to offering FPS as a payment option as well.

If someone wants to provide you with support great,

and if they don’t thats ok, they can still read your stuff.

I have no problem with a simple cheap efficient way to allow
anyone to get donations, tips ect. or gasp sales.

As well, your statement that millions more have Amazon accounts than PayPal may not be entirely accurate – PayPal has somewhere around 143 million, while Amazon has somewhere around 70 million.

Not that I’m a PayPal fan, I’ve been through hell & high water trying to get an affiliate ad payment from them this week. fyi: when adding a new email to an existing Paypal profile, I don’t get the link required in their confirmation msg which is needed to click back to them. Maybe it’s their problem with FF, I don’t know, but what a PITA!

If FPS micro-payments help Bezos and his Blue Origin make it to outer-space, more power to him I say.

First off, you’re right that ads are the the thing right now as far as most websites making money is concerned. But I think the reasons for that have more to do with cost/benefit analysis than anything else.

When we were deciding on the revenue model for our app (http://www.kayuda.com/, plug plug), we modeled out a lot of things–ads, subscriptions, donations, freemium, selling goods, etc. Ads won by a mile because Google makes them effectively zero effort to set up, zero cost to maintain, and provides highly detailed statistics for seeing how you’re doing. Most importantly, Google is *well known* for doing that, so they come to mind immediately when people are trying to figure out how to do what they love and still keep the lights on. Furthermore, the statistics are pretty good–it seems like even mediocre sites can get a 0.1% CTR, and when one ad in a thousand is paying off, it doesn’t take much traffic to generate enough revenue to live.

When the costs are essentially zero, the benefits are easy to estimate for any given level of traffic, and it’s a recurring revenue stream…it’s hard to argue in favor of doing something else.