Subscription Media

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Bundles, One of the Futures of Newsletters

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[Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast

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a fascinating distinction between subscriptions (legacy media) & membership (creators) happening in real time— subscriptions: best content is paywalled because content is the only value membership: best content is free because the creator and the community is the value.

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the answer for publishers in the age of AI is no different than it was in the age of Aggregators: build a direct connection with readers. This, by extension, means business models that maximize revenue per user, which is to say subscriptions (the business model that undergirds this site, and an increasing number of others).

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