Steem Files used to be a way for users to pay for and immediately get copies of digital goods. Although there were a few books that I thought some users would like on the site, there were so few sales, it became apparent that the Steem community were not interested in paying each other for digital downloads. Perhaps the community is too small or maybe it is from many years of wide availability of high-quality free software, and the mass availability of both software and other forms of media which are not free but can be easily downloaded or watched anyway without paying.
Indeed? Who the hell wants to pay for a book and reward an author when you can go to bittorrent, or Youtube and watch copyrighted material without paying. Youtube had won a case against the RIAA in court, so users can upload music from all of the artists whose CDs sell in stores. Why pay for music? Why pay for books?
Is it Grisham's Law in action? If a user has cryptocurrencies and credit cards, but feels the cryptocurrency will go up in value, it makes sense for the user to part with the fiat money first. So, instead of Steemfiles, they go to Amazon.com. More selection after all.
The economic model that works, involves getting money out of the reward pool. We can help each other in a way that benefits us both.
When bitcoin fees were high, the service I was using for the server was charging a cost in coins that was much higher than the price they told me in fiat when I was paying with altcoins. It was Steem! They wanted to charge me a higher transaction fee than there was with BTC when the blocks were full!
I will probably go with privex.io, I like them. If I keep everything client side (apart from blockchain), I don't need VPS. That is possible. I have been spending more time looking for paid work, so no time to work on or maintain steemfiles. See the problem?
If you need a coder, I'd be glad to help you. Send a small amount of money to 
Donations are welcome and donations to 
I could offer a cheap "follow everyone service". I could make you follow everyone on Steemit for $50. Just send it with the memo please make this follow everyone. I did it before with the steemfiles account and got 5000 follow backs this way. It will make your 'feed' useless to you though.
Beneficiary amount could be redirected to
Just post and you guys vote. Automated posting doesn't work and manual posting doesn't often work either. So, that's an option shutdown.
Finally, advertisement support. This is something I had avoided.
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