When we calculate your story’s earnings, we’ll also include reading time from non-members if they become members within 30 days of reading your story. So we encourage you to share your stories widely!
That's interesting. Makes sense.
[...] you will receive 10% of their share (a portion of their subscription fee).
This is the part I don't like, and where Readup is making serious improvements. This is really not transparent. You get 10% of a share, without knowing how large that share is. For all we know, Medium pockets 50% of the subscription and divvies up another 50%. Or 40%. Or 60%. It's guesswork. They might also change this without notice.
We take care to differentiate between gaps in scroll activity versus long periods of time during which the viewer stepped away for a coffee break.
This is how I initially thought Readup's tracker worked. Looking only at "scroll activity" and trying to determine if that is realistic reading-scrolling activity. The word-based Readup algorithm is much cooler however, and more versatile! (and Medium could easily copy it, if they were so inclined? @jeff?).
When short pieces are well-written and thought provoking, we’ve found that readers will end up spending more time with the piece. And vice versa: if a long piece is filled with fluff, readers simply won’t reach the end. In a world competing for attention, readers spend their limited time where it counts. Longer stories don’t guarantee more reading time. On average, readers actually spend the most time reading mid-length pieces.
On Readup, it's all or nothing. A new kind of question might emerge for readers. If you're at 60% of a long article, and it is OK, but not great, and there's other stuff for you to read: do you read on, and pay the writer? Or stop, knowing the writer won't get any of your $? A decision where compunction may come into play. Completion as a necessity for commenting? No doubt. Completion as a necessity for pay? I think there's more room for debate there.
All in all, we hope our system supports all thoughtful work, long or short, and we plan to keep a careful eye on the outcomes as we learn and iterate into the future.
No. 3 of my Money & Medium research project. Jeff brought me here from No. 2.
That's interesting. Makes sense.
This is the part I don't like, and where Readup is making serious improvements. This is really not transparent. You get 10% of a share, without knowing how large that share is. For all we know, Medium pockets 50% of the subscription and divvies up another 50%. Or 40%. Or 60%. It's guesswork. They might also change this without notice.
This is how I initially thought Readup's tracker worked. Looking only at "scroll activity" and trying to determine if that is realistic reading-scrolling activity. The word-based Readup algorithm is much cooler however, and more versatile! (and Medium could easily copy it, if they were so inclined? @jeff?).
On Readup, it's all or nothing. A new kind of question might emerge for readers. If you're at 60% of a long article, and it is OK, but not great, and there's other stuff for you to read: do you read on, and pay the writer? Or stop, knowing the writer won't get any of your $? A decision where compunction may come into play. Completion as a necessity for commenting? No doubt. Completion as a necessity for pay? I think there's more room for debate there.
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