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Medium Does NOT Pay For Reads

A typical misconception

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Burk
Dec 19, 2021
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I get a lot of comments from new (or established) writers that suggest Medium would be paying its writers based on reads.

I know what they mean, but reads are not the meaningful metric to look at here.

Example: I have a post with over 14K reads, yet it only made me $2.69 to date.

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