Do articles sell in the new marketplace?

It depends on the quality of the articles, the seller's reputation, pricing, etc. (just like selling anything)... Seems to be a pretty good overall sale rate on average though.

Skimming a couple people I happen to know sell articles...

For example, @Bali_Sunset looks like he has an 89% sale rate on all articles:

mysql> SELECT (SELECT SUM(total_articles) FROM article_groups WHERE user_id = 118598 AND purchaser_user_id > 0) AS articles_sold, (SELECT SUM(total_articles) FROM article_groups WHERE user_id = 118598 AND not_for_sale = 0) AS articles_unsold;
+---------------+-----------------+
| articles_sold | articles_unsold |
+---------------+-----------------+
|           268 |              34 |
+---------------+-----------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Code (sql):

@Robert Merchant's article listings looks pretty well sold as well... (only admin can see the listings for what has sold already since they aren't available for purchase, there is no point in showing people what they can't buy).

 

There isn't a whole lot to explain on the quality score, just that it's a generalized/algorithmic score on the quality of the article on a scale between 0 and 100 (100 being higher quality).

 

You can remove something for sale, but it's on a per article pack/group basis. Like one couldn't remove an individual article from a pack of 10 for example. But you could remove the pack of 10 as a whole.

 

Yep, that will remove it from being listed/for sale.