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Season 3, Issue 25: 🐦👻
- 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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- On Substack, writers can directly email their audience. Medium is still figuring out their business models; they initially tried ads but now use a subscription model
from Unbundling Journalism | Chris Best on Venture Stories by Chris Best
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- By offering a seamlessly integrated email, payment integration (Stripe is a big part of all these revolutions), and no-design-needed opinionated web presentation, Substack managed to basically resurrect a zombie category of text media that hadn’t really existed in this kind of pure form since the 90s.
from A Text Renaissance by Ribbon Farm
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