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GET READY FOR LOTS OF CAPS BECAUSE I CAN’T SCREAM LOUD ENOUGH!
BETTER WAYS TO MAKE A NICKEL THAN WRITING ON MEDIUM…
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! MEDIUM, FOR THE BIG BANG’S SAKE, PROVE ME WRONG!
6 min readJan 16, 2025
Zote to Medium: PLEASE PROVE ME WRONG!
Many writers on Medium in 2024 would average 10 cents or more per read. If there was a lot of engagement with that, it would only go up from there. I started out full of life, love, and excitement for making 2025 my best year ever on Medium. Then Jan 1st punched me and thousands of others in the guts so fucking hard it still hurts!
We’re now seeing read payout amounts of $0.0016 for a Read!?!?!?!
WTF?!?!?!
So let’s start with a VERY EASY — WRITING RELATED:
BETTER WAY TO MAKE A NICKEL THAN WRITING ON MEDIUM #1:
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited — KDP:
Payouts per page read often average around $0.0044 per page Read. At first glance, using my…