4 ms·
Agreed. When I read that Medium were doing subscriptions, I was like "cool, I'll be able to charge people to read my content on Medium". I likely wouldn't get a
by CM30 10y ago
Agreed. When I read that Medium were doing subscriptions, I was like "cool, I'll be able to charge people to read my content on Medium". I likely wouldn't get a lot of paying subscribers reading my content, but I guess I'd get at least a few.
Yet every article seems to make this out as 'Medium charges for content, writers continue getting sod all for it'.
Sorry Medium, but if turns out to be more than the latter than the former, then I'll stop writing on your platform. If you're implementing a bunch of ways to make money, let the creators on your site use them to make money from their own works. We're not writing for free so you can charge people money to read it.
- iamdave 10y agoBingo. While other commenters have brought up some very real benefits to self-hosting/self-publishing, monetizing the platform presents a real opportunity to make real money from your work and determine value of what gets written. I imagine it'll be harder to paywall one's own blog in the vacuum of a "blog brand". That's enticing to me greatly, but it's absolutely worth considering tradeoffs.
- criddell 10y ago> cool, I'll be able to charge people to read my content on Medium You know, I never thought of it that way but the more I think about it, the more I think your idea is a great one. Let writers paywall their work and take 30% (similar to the app store model). Let me buy $0.99 articles and I probably would. I've bought $1 Kindle singles before and this sounds like it could be similar.