I chose not to receive payments on this post. It didn't seem appropriate since it was kind of a mild rant about not having enough opportunity and control here.
You could do blurbs with Zappl, but yeah, you'd probably just earn a few cents at best.
Steemit LOVES long-form content, but in my experience, the compensation ranges from nil to maybe $10 if you're lucky.
I can be ignored posting on my own website, you know? The main incentives for posting here to Steemit is the community (aka NOT being ignored), and the potential for compensation.
I've seen a lot of people posting books here in serialized format, and I just want those people to know they're going to experience problems when they are ready to publish outside Steemit, and since we can't delete the content here, you're locked in here. It's like it was part of the plan to trap your content here and not pay you passively for it beyond the first week it's published.
RE: Steemit Would Be Perfect if it Was Passive - Don't Publish to Steemit With Hopes of Repurposing Your Content for Kindle