Readability Just Became Instapaper’s Publisher Payment Layer

Personally, I think the concept behind Readability is pretty awesome. It gives you a way to read all your favorite articles on the web without all of the clutter of the web — meaning, mainly, ads. And the recently-launched payment component is even more interesting because it gives you a way to pay back (in a very small way) your favorite writers/publications that you often read on the web. But as one such writer who works for one such publication, clearly I'm biased. I realize that this idea isn't for everyone. And it's going to be a fairly hard sell for some people. But that sell may have just gotten a little easier. When Readability re-launched last week, they noted a partnership with popular bookmarking service Instapaper . The main component of this integration was set to be a Readability mobile application that Instapaper's Marco Arment made (and will release soon) in Instapaper's image. This is great for Readability since Instapaper is already a hugely popular app on the iOS platform. But a small bit of news today is even better. As Arment announced today on the Instapaper blog, you can now send you Instapaper logs to Readability.