Quote from: Patatas on March 23, 2019, 07:27:13 PM

.. Maybe a system where one article, if solid gives exclusive editing rights for the buyer, could be implemented.

True but as a buyer, I want exclusive rights over the digital content I buy, don't I?

I agree but I'm afraid I couldn't understand exactly what kind of exclusive rights you're talking about. Do you mean that a buyer should pay once for an article an own all copyrights of it, so, he can do whatever he wants after purchasing like publishing on his own site etc.?

Quote from: Harlot on March 23, 2019, 08:59:25 PM

So the bottom line is your project is willing to let unknown writers to sell their articles in your Literatus website? I doubt that a first time reader would have interest to pay something up every time he just wants to read an article. What is happening is unlike Steemit in where publishers can earn at the same time their readers wouldn't have to pay anything but to upvote this wouldn't work as I doubt that readers will be interested on something where they need to pay up just to read, and given by the articles already published in your website I don't find anything interesting at all to the point I need to pay the author to read his/her future articles.

Thanks for the comments.

Yes, it lets everyone sell articles on the platform. Of course, it's also possible to publish articles without a price (I think free posts will always be much more than paid ones).

Afaik, incentive mechanism of Steemit is fundamentally different, it seems weird and unnatural a bit to me. Don't know even where the money the authors earn come from. There are ads on the site and I can't publish unless waiting for a week or buying an account(?). I don't want to turn Literatus into a Reddit-like social platform with tons of social features and interaction. Steemit has a lot of content at the moment but I think a simple publishing marketplace will be more useful and natural at scale.

It's true that there are not so interesting articles that are worth to pay on Literatus at the moment. It's a brand new site. Hope there will be greats authors and thousands of high quality priced posts in the future. I think readers don't stay back themselves from paying a little amount of money to read a good article in that case.

Authors already try to earn money by sellings their writings on different platforms like Leanpub, Tuts+ etc. So, I think there is a room for this model.