I actually think though that steemit has the capabilites to replace the major book publishers. I know thats not related but here i can publish a story and make direct cash and build an audience. if you rely on a publisher youve got to give them all kinds of things and maby even get censored if you write something they dont like here its far less of an issue.
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I hope you are right. I imagine a lot of amateur writers (even novelists) will submit work. The negative is that unless that person already has followers or gets lucky, his post will get buried. The current structure is extremely skewed to recent posts. If someone posted something that got buried a week ago..will anyone ever find it? Well known authors who first verify their identity and get tons of followers will be able to do well here though (but I don't think they'll make as much as through a publisher..if they are good). Someone will not likely make $200,000 for a best seller released on Steemit.
yeah still to me as someone who's never been published the chance to build an audience is great to and if a story i wrote were to earn 10 dollars, id be grateful for a long time.
Ya, the short life cycle was surprising to me at first and I'm still not sure what I think of it. Do we all have ADD in the future?
I had been thinking of a blockchain way to reward stories, and when I heard about Steemit I thought that might be it, but the life cycle makes it more about quicker spurts of attention.
Seems like there is a role for pinning things to the top for longer, for certain types of discussions. Or in the case of stories, for forever basically, based on what's best, sorted by genre.
What I'm unclear about is whether Steem could be used by a different site/app to have a longer life cycle, like if the 12 hour thing is built into Steem itself or just the Steemit site.
Would be cool to see different sites with different life cycles to encourage different types of content, if that's possible to do.
You just gave me an idea for a new post!
Sweet! If it's along the lines of the story thing and different life cycles... I'm vaguely thinking of posting something similar. Curious to see what you come up with.
The idea of having branches for different life cycles would be FANTASTIC. Some specifically tailored to purely original content.