Suite101.com is a revenue sharing paid-to-write site. Such sites work by placing ads on the content submitted by writers, and the site sharing a percentage of the ad revenues with the author. The author gains over submitting content to such sites than working on their own blogs by saving the time and hassles of marketing their own work. Moreover being a collaborative effort, the patronage of such sites would be high.
However, the agreement between the writer and Suite101, mandatory before submitting content to suite 1010 favor the company
Another major drawback of Suite 101 from the writers perspective is that the site retains exclusive rights for the content upto 2 years from submission. This means that the content submitted to this site cannot be reposed anywhere else like Associated Content, Helium and other sites, so the revenue from the article would have to come exclusively from Suite 101 for the first two years.
The payment rates offered at present is $1.50 per thousand page views.