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Grantland and the (Surprising) Future of Publishing
- A more pessimistic prediction is that the current True Fan revolution will eventually go the way of the original Web 2.0 revolution, with creators increasingly ground in the gears of monetization. The Substack of today makes it easy for a writer to charge fans for a newsletter. The Substack of tomorrow might move toward a flat-fee subscription mode... See more
from The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class by Cal Newport
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- Substack has the potential to serve as the tool that captures and monetizes professional journalism in ways that were unforeseen before the advent of publications like Stratechery. But if Substack chooses to become more than a Shopify-like solution for the re-platforming of local news, they may find that the real long-term value of their platform l... See more
from Member Brief: Substack and Local News by PM
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- I like to say that I write about media generally and journalism specifically because the industry is a canary in the coal mine when it comes to the impact of the Internet: text shifted from newsprint to the web seamlessly, completely upending the industry’s business model along the way.Of course I have a vested interest in this shift: for better or... See more
from The IT Era and the Internet Revolution by Ben Thompson
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