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Here's an idea: What about if all the independent writers who are publishing newsletter emails were integrated into a single page with daily updates. If you l
by andrewstuart 6y ago
Here's an idea:
What about if all the independent writers who are publishing newsletter emails were integrated into a single page with daily updates.
If you liked the article you could subscribe to that newsletter.
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- david-gpu 6y agoSince this option is obvious, perhaps it would be better to understand why they are doing this rather than posting an inane comment.
- andrewstuart 6y agoAny obvious idea is done on the Internet ..... can you direct me to where this is already implemented? I have no doubt someone will start aggregating newsletters into summary pages featuring latest posts, with navigation by topic. And if they do that then no doubt they will also seek advertising revenue. Probably it will be substack themselves.
- david-gpu 6y agoMy reply was to your original meme-comment before you edited it into something else. It is disingenuous for you to request a clarification to your new edited comment. Shame in you.
- indigochill 6y agoBut does the newspaper format specifically add anything to this transaction? Magazines are slower but higher-quality in virtually every way (and I like that magazines are dedicated to a particular topic rather than subscribing to a wide set of topics some of which you might not care about), while the internet (particularly email newsletters) is faster and better-suited for disposable daily updates. The internet also provides the opportunity for some remarkable interactive journalism (I know a guy who's done some of this for the WSJ) which is impossible to replicate on paper and can sometimes convey the story better than pure print can. So does daily wood pulp still have a place in our media diet? I'm curious to hear arguments for what purpose it still fills.
- andrewstuart 6y agoI mean a website, not actual paper.