You read right. Now you're asking what's the catch?
If you write articles or short stories (like I do) or poems (like I occasionally do) then wouldn't it be nice if we were able to get paid for publishing our work?
Well I found a place, on the web, where you can. What's the catch? To be plain and simple, you still have to promote your work.
I found a place on the web that will let you publish (almost) anything, be it short stories, poems, prose, how-to books, photos, videos etc. The way it works is this. The more traffic you generate to your published piece, the more they will (hopefully) spend on advertisements on the site. You get 50% of revenue generated from your published work.
In essence, here's the deal. If you were able to get 500 people to visit the site, and not one of them spent a dime on advertising, you'd get nothing. If however, you got people to the site who spent money, which (COULD) happen, then you'd get 50% of whatever they spent.
The good part of the deal is this. These people pay every month, unlike some places that make you wait for three months.
What is this place? It's TRIOND. Here's the link:
(TRIOND)
Please read the "HOW IT WORKS" section before you register. Registration is free. It's worth it to read the how it works section before you sign up.
Good luck, good writing,
Ernie
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Im going to read now just have many questions right off the bat just going off what you have said :)
Have a great Friday!
I read the terms and there is no way I would give any publication and all of its affiliates perpetual right to publish my original material wherever and whenever they want hoping to make a few pennies and I strongly recommend no one else do it either. (item 5) supposedly writer retains all copyright, but consider if you want to publish your story in a 'paying market', you would have to market it as a 'reprint' and make considerably less money.
If you have a website that makes you money, and TRIOND operates like a directory and allows a link to your website – this might be worth the investment in time as people will come visit you and you will indeed profit. I'm making a list of such directories for my web launch later this year.
Let me know, how it goes for you – I'm curious, but until I have my website set up in a couple of months, I'm enjoying the Gather community and submitting essays and queries only to paying markets.
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE THE FINE PRINT: Here's the part to read.
5. Rights Granted . By submitting your Original Content for publication on the Site, you hereby irrevocable and unconditionally grant Triond, and any of its affiliates (hereinafter also referred to as "Triond"), a irrevocable, perpetual, unlimited free of charge and exclusive right to publish the Original Content on the Site and/or on other Internet Sites the Original Content shall be referred to by Triond (hereinafter also referred to as the "Site"), as Triond shall deem suitable under the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as well as allow I users of the Site to view and further use the Original Content, free of charge, for any such purpose permitted by Triond, provided such use shall not be for profit generating purposes. Without derogating from the above, Triond shall be entitled to edit, delete, cutback, rephrase, reproduce, copy, translate, merge, add, use and make use of the Materials, in whole or in part, in any way or manner and at any time, as Triond shall deem appropriate in its sole discretion.
6. Author's Rights. You shall continue to retain all authorship and copyrights to the Materials submitted for publication trough the website.
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Thanks Ernie....I have registered myself ..I think we can go for pics and other Short stories and poem...I am going to try...
If I worked harder, I could make more:)
To be honest I'm a bit wary of them after reading what Perle wrote and because there are other options that are less binding.
But Ernie, thank you for thinking of us.
Look at what Bhawana did. Wow!