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I think it's confusing because he's talking about a feature for Medium publications that most people don't even know ever existed. For a small handful of public
by tonystubblebine 7y ago
I think it's confusing because he's talking about a feature for Medium publications that most people don't even know ever existed. For a small handful of publications, Medium had allowed them to offer their own "pay to subscribe" program where your subscription fee went directly to the publication. I think of this as a failed product experiment that Medium's been slow to kill (Medium is very slow to kill failed experiments in general).
- tonystubblebine 7y agoAlso, I think he's probably doing the right thing for himself. Tiago is on the path to getting a mainstream book deal. In self-improvement, he's on the Ben Hardy or James Clear path. A huge part of that book deal is based on the number of subscribers to his mailing list. A book deal is decent money, seemingly everyone gets an advance in the $200k range. But more importantly, it's a huge career level up for someone like Tiago. Every activity that doesn't build up your mailing list ends up being kind of a waste of time. I suspect that Tiago could actually make more money on Medium publishing behind their paywall than he's going to make in his personal subscription program. But it's not enough that it should be his focus. Also, I assume incentives will change again at Medium down the road as they keep trying to make the deal work for more and more authors. So maybe he'll come back, if just to cross post.