Will the iPad encourage users to pay for online news contents? Honestly, nobody knows it.
Consumers are used to spend money using mobile devices, contrary to what happens when using computers.
In the last decade, while people downloaded music illegally to their desktop computers, they paid small amounts of money on their cellphones to download ring tones and send text messages. Later on, the iPhone has proved that the economics of the mobile devices are unique: the Apple App Store will generate $1.4 billion this year.