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Book authors have been getting advances against future sales for a long, long time, so it's hardly novel. I'm not really following the the concern.
by Lazare 5y ago
Book authors have been getting advances against future sales for a long, long time, so it's hardly novel. I'm not really following the the concern.
- fragmede 5y agoI'm not expressing concern about Substack's opinion makers here (though there are certainly some very strong thoughts expressed elsewhere about their particular choices), but that due to the economics involved, GP's positioning of Substack as a wholly neutral platform is not entirely correct - Substack's actions with whom they chose to give an advance to constitutes expressing an opinion, however indirectly.
- civilized 5y agoAuthors given an advance by Substack are on a much broader ideological spectrum than, say, NYT op-ed columnists.