Topic: Literatus.org - blogging platform where authors earn [Bitcoin accepted here] (Read 385 times)

True that, for the internal pages, I was felling like in Medium.com, comfortable to read articles, but the home page should absolutely be improved, at least to attract readers, otherwise you will have writters but nobody to read their articles, so they won't waste more time to write original articles that don't generate them any income (as small as it is)

That being said, I still like the idea, good luck @prayer0000

The problem I see here is the author has no way to monetize their content without making their articles "paid", and in that order their only way to earn is to build up an audience for themselves which I think will take a long time especially if the site itself has not a lot of users by now. Unlike Youtube, Steemit, and other money earning ways for content makers they earn without making their content paid at the same time their followers gets what they want without paying anything. You have a good thing going on here but I don't think it would work for you and your authors.

I liked your site,it is simple and elegant. For the author and reader problem ,I have a suggestion if author and platform willing to participate.
Author can refund 25 to 50 % of amount to the reader if he find reader comment interesting.
For free articles , author might give some kind of code that will reader discount on Author publication if he is going to write some paid publication.

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.?

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.

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.

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

But that shouldn't affect your product haha I mean people just want to get paid regardless of what the payment method is. They will find a way to convert it into fiat/other coins.

Then thanks! Imho, most important aspects are:

- It enables authors to earn money from their writings.
- It utilizes crypto. Instant deposits and withdrawals.
- Multilinguality. It's live on 6 languages and will be extended to every possible language in the future. Every language has its dedicated subdomain (e.g. https://en.literatus.org for English). This helps to keep things simple and well-categorized at scale like in Wikipedia.
- Clean design.
- No paperwork, no country limitations like Medium has (https://medium.com/me/partner/enroll/payment).

I would like you to sign up to the site and see yourself for more objective review.

I am willing to do it as pro bono. With a view to get a testimonial from you. Kindly guide me on the key sub-topics you would like covered.

Thanks man. I would be glad for this. Are you talking about a paid review or as a favor?

Hello prayer,

This is a novel platform. I see you want to overcome the challenges of Steemit. Its a breathe of fresh air for writers. I would like to propose to create awareness for this platform by writing a review for it. Would you mind me writing and article on the article and sharing it in popular sites that have writers, readers and publishers?

Here is what I have done at Medium;https://medium.com/@dixnjakindah/how-to-choose-an-initial-coin-offering-like-a-venture-capitalist-c67c67b6917e

Hoping to hear from you.

Thanks.

Yes, but in a different way. I think it's better to pay for what you get. It's possible to put paid content online for free, this applies to also other marketplace sites like themeforest.net, but imho incentives for this are not strong enough.


I think so, but crypto-racism is real thing :) There is so much hate in the space, especially between Bitcoin and its forks.


Thanks for these comments and advices! Hopefully it will turn into a digital library from a blogging platform over time.

This part of your reply makes me think that you have never heard of Nature.com
Or read / bought any of its articles.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0195-27
That's a random one I pulled for you related to rheumatoid arthritis.

OP's project is similar to this - except its on Bitcoin SV / Crypto.

If anything, Bitcoin projects should post their whitepapers here - anyone that wants to read it has to pay for it.
Not only whitepaper - anything technical that has had research time & money spent into it, could find it's way to Literatus


OP - good work!

Just don't de-rank it by calling it a blogging platform.

The idea is interesting but don't you think that stemmit or whatever that site is called kinda monetizes articles as well? Moreover, if one article is bought by someone, there is no point for another person to buy it since the article will already be crawled on the internet if the first buyer puts it online. Maybe a system where one article, if solid gives exclusive editing rights for the buyer, could be implemented.


Of course not! It's your project, you're free to implement whatever payment method you think your end users will be happy with.

Oh okay, if that's the case then you're already doing quite well considering you've only just started.
I'll definitely think about it, the only issue I'm currently having is coming up with great content for which people would actually pay to read it.

I generally write free content at the moment, which I publish on the Steem blockchain, so making the switch to paid content isn't as easy.

Thanks, I'm pleased you liked it! It's a brand new site with a little community at the moment. Hope it will grow fast. Authors earn price * reader_count. So, it'll be great for the author when an $0.25 article is sold 1000s times.

You know, authors say "there is no readers on the platform" and readers say "there is no authors on the platform", but we need to start.

So, I hope you join and give it a chance!

Huh, I really like the concept of this and I'm pretty tempted to join actually, even if it's just for fun.
I don't see people earning huge amounts with it yet, I mean you best sellers have earned only $0.10 - $0.25 per article, but it's neat nonetheless.

I'm a big fan of the overall design as well, looks incredibly clean and easy to read.

Readers can see a preview of priced posts for free. They have to pay the price to read the rest of the content. For example, you need to buy this posts to read it: https://en.literatus.org/@Trevor_Parsons/a-review-of-the-bitcoin-btc-lightning-network-wallet-called-bluewallet/b7d98ed8b699a0dc/

More details about paid posts is here: https://en.literatus.org/earn/
Terms is here: https://en.literatus.org/terms/


It's simple.

- Set a price for your post.
- Users can see a preview of your posts for free. If they want to continue to read, they have to pay.
- When they pay, your balance is updated. You earn from each sale.
- You can withdraw your balance whenever you want.

If you don't set a price for your posts it will be available for free as in every blogging platform.

See here for more details: https://en.literatus.org/earn/

The UI is still confusing to me. How can the author earn Bitcoin? There's no tip button or something similar, and I can already read some articles even though I don't paid any yet. I think you should look at your competitor, Publish0x where they allow anonymous user or their users to distribute tokens from reward pools to article that they find interesting. in short, they provide the rewards and lets the community decide where to spend them.

I am a bit interested in it, is it same with patreon platform? The readers can't see the author's posts before they subscribe or buy it?

Btw, I didn't see your FAQ, term of service or support page regarding the project. At least people need to read some rule to start writing an article there.

Hi everyone,

I've recently launched a new project called Literatus (https://literatus.org). Literatus is a multi-lingual blogging platform where authors earn money from their writings. Simply, authors can set a price for their writings and earn from every sale!

It's live on 6 languages at the moment: English, Deutsch, Italiano, 日本語, Norsk and Turkish.

You can deposit your wallet with Bitcoin Lightning ⚡ payments (see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLjCS5jwtgM) or BSV -- and buy posts with your balance. I hope you guys don't rage against me because of BSV. I have an eclectic mindset, so I wanted to use both. Imho, micropayments on the site are a perfect use case for LN.

So, hope you guys give it a try and give me some feedback.

Literatus.org