Great post. For me writing fiction is more of a hobby than an attempt at making money so things like steemit, but also cryptocurency donate links on my author page are a good way to allow me to make my ebooks free of charge, while still making some money to fund my editing costs. Would be amazing if I could find a good editor on steemit willing to be payed in STD and/or Dogecoin (somehow the dogecoin users seem more generous with respect to considering making micro donations than the Bitcoin and ZCash users, who as far as 'my' experience goes, don't donate). To bad there really doesn't seem to be a way to make a donate button or link for steemit at the moment. I am currently posting chapters from my old novelettes on steemit and playing a bit with provoking some feedback by writing out a feedback lottery, but so far the idea isn't catching on yet (zero in 3 days). But then maybe with just 30 followers, what do I expect.

One additional thing I think steemit might enable is a way to value the now greatly undervalued beta reader. A real high potential platform for indie authors IMO, all it needs now is a good way for parties to find each other, such as authors and beta readers or authors and editors or cover artists looking to either make some STD.