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Fair pay for great fiction

A Manifesto

Fair pay for great fiction.

Writers should be paid for what is actually read - through one honest subscription, not a maze of coins.

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A Thought Experiment

1 million paying readers.
One question.

Where does $8 a month, paid by a million readers, actually go?

Reader money flowing in

$8,000,000

per month

/

$96,000,000

per year

Now watch where it lands.

Other novel sites

Coin-gated - ~30% effective

$2,400,000

$28.8M/yr

Trickles to writers

For the reader

Buy coins. Unlock each chapter.

Writer share

~30% after opaque platform economics

Allocation

Per coin spent. Top books win.

Transparency

Confusing pricing and hidden fees.

TinyNovels

70/30

$5,600,000

$67.2M/yr

Reaches the writers

For the reader

Subscribe once. Read everything.

Writer share

70% of every dollar

Same readers - same dollars

$38.4M more reaches writers on TinyNovels every year.

$3.2M more - every month

How It Works

How one reader pays two writers.

Meet Mira. She pays $8/month in May. Here is exactly where it goes.

Mira pays

Subscription

$8.00

70% to writer pool

Mira's pool

$5.60

30% to platform

Operations

$2.40

Mira reads 120,000 chars from Anna and 30,000 chars from Boris this month.

Anna receives

$5.60 x (120k / 150k)

$4.48

Boris receives

$5.60 x (30k / 150k)

$1.12

The Goal

A small room.
Door propped open.

First 10,000 premium readers

2/10,000

Premium readers

0.02% of the way there

$11/$56,000

To writers - monthly

$132/$672,000

To writers - yearly

We are early. Come in early, and the room shapes around you.

Read here. Write here.
Get paid for what is read.

Your $8 finds the writer you stayed up for.

Become premiumWrite on TinyNovels

Allocation

By characters actually read.

Transparency

Every rule on this page.

For new writers

The first character read of your first chapter earns you money. No contracts, no coin math, no waiting for a platform to explain itself.