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RJWolfe t1_je2j6ia wrote

Reply to comment by of_thoughts in I am Casualfarmer, author of the web serial and novel Beware of Chicken. AMA! by CasualfarmerBOC

> Royal road without Patreon/KU is not paying the bills of full time authors.

Does Royal Road pay authors, at all? I was under the impression that it's like love in the '60s.

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RavensDagger t1_je2on6y wrote

No, RR doesn't have an system of monetization on it. You can link to a Patreon/Kofi/Paypal from it, however.

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of_thoughts t1_je88zbh wrote

Exactly, no bills being paid.

So essentially people are saying, "Keep posting thousands of words here for free and leave them up forever" while authors are saying, "Hey, here are thousands of words here for free but after tons of people have enjoyed them I am going to take the early work down to post them somewhere else where I can get paid and will use that money to live and keep writing NEW words I will post here for free for you to read." And people are like, "No, keep posting for free".

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