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The Medium pivot is the message
- Substack isn’t the only player that has sought to figure out small-scale publishing in the platform dominance era. Medium, for instance, has been home to a rotating roster of small publications, but has pivoted often and failed to emerge as the media force many once hoped it would be. Best said Substack’s main focus is the connection between an ind... See more
from How Substack Has Spawned a New Class of Newsletter Entrepreneurs by Steven Perlberg
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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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