Well, what I mean is : someone starts to publish in his Steemit blog some serialised fiction with result at 0.05 $ payout.
Next week the same serialised fiction appears as featured by some prominent account with the result at few hundred $ payout.
Isn't it some sort of proof that publishing will never die?
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But, to answer your question, no, it's not. Trad Pub held the keys to the kingdom. They didn't just offer a bigger megaphone, as it were, they've had the power to shut out writers for generations. It didn't start that way, authors wrote, edited and printed their own works in the beginning, then there were printers, but authors still produced the content, then publishers finally established the "need" for middle men.
It hasn't been that way for very long. I recall as late as the sixties that there was an enormous amonut of diversity. I recall the wire frame racks of paperbacks there were in every drugstore, supermarket, truck stop and filling station.
Don't see them much anymore.
That is one form of sponsored publishing, or content curation. At Steemit we are experimenting with many forms of publishing. J.
Considering that Dickens did it long before us, it was hardly original to the first person and most of what has gotten the low payouts was not of good quality.