How much does it cost for a content provider to become a part of the Clickshare service?
Regardless of size, there is a one-time membership fee of $1,995 for Clickshare publishing membership. With membership comes a free license to use Clickshare-enhanced server software for user registration. This fee may be paid upon enrollment or it may be debited from the Publishing Member’s clearing account as a percentage of ongoing royalty payments. The Publisher Member is also charged a fee of $3 per year, payable quarterly, for each of the first 10,000 end-users who register to use Clickshare through their site (with a declining per-user fee schedule above that level). That fee may also be financed via “clickstream” royalties or commissions otherwise due Publishing Member. This per-user fee is required to finance the scaling-up of technical facilities, which depends on the total number of users in the Clickshare “universe.” A Publisher with 100,000 users puts more “load” on the system than one with 100 users.
