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Wish he was starting a Substack -- I'd subscribe right away. Great science writer, and one of the few journalists today whose name I recognize and whose byline

Wish he was starting a Substack -- I'd subscribe right away. Great science writer, and one of the few journalists today whose name I recognize and whose byline is pretty much an instant recommendation to me.

benzible 3y ago
He has a newsletter. You can even pay for it if you'd like! https://buttondown.email/edyong209 https://buttondown.email/edyong209 ...of course I get that he's not committing to publishing all of his writing there: > I’ll likely do smaller-scale pieces too, but am still working out the details of where, what, how, and all the rest.
- Michelangelo11 3y ago
  Yeah, but to read those articles in full (so far), I'd have to have subscribed to The Atlantic, and I just want his stuff.
shafyy 3y ago
I hate that this shitty company (Substack) has become synonymous to newsletter or blog. The submission literally links to his newsletter on Buttondown.
- Michelangelo11 3y ago
  The issue is, as I said in another comment here, that his newsletter doesn't have his full-length articles. It links to his articles in The Atlantic, and you have to be a subscriber to The Atlantic to read them.
  - mburns 3y ago
    This full-length (albeit short) article is him announcing he’s leaving The Atlantic. So… problem solved?
    - Michelangelo11 3y ago
      Consider the possibility that the problem is not having to subscribe to The Atlantic per se, but having to subscribe to a magazine to read just one of its writers -- and that, perhaps, the problem may get worse because Ed Yong might start writing for multiple magazines that each ask you to subscribe. Honestly can't tell if you're trolling or being dense.
      - shanusmagnus 3y ago
        Another way to think about it is that up till now, if you had subscribed to The Atlantic, you would have got him + a bunch of other writers in the bundle. To me, what the a-la-carte model has revealed is what media-savvy people had always said it would reveal: a bunch of individual writers who all want me to pay $70 a year to get their periodic newsletter updates. "If only my five favorites would get together and do something collectively, I'd pay $100 a year," I thought to myself. "And I'd bet they'd get vastly more subscribers and come out way ahead." Whoever said there are only two business models, bundling and un-bundling, seems to be right, as far as I can tell. I'm looking forward to the next bundling cycle.
        Michelangelo11 3y ago
        > Another way to think about it is that up till now, if you had subscribed to The Atlantic, you would have got him + a bunch of other writers in the bundle. Wow. I never thought of it that way. It's kind of mind-blowing to think of a magazine as a bundle of writers. Any more insights of this caliber?
        shanusmagnus 3y ago
        I hope you find someone to love you.
        dang 3y ago
        Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

benzible 3y ago

He has a newsletter. You can even pay for it if you'd like! https://buttondown.email/edyong209 https://buttondown.email/edyong209 ...of course I get that he's not committing to publishing all of his writing there: > I’ll likely do smaller-scale pieces too, but am still working out the details of where, what, how, and all the rest.

Michelangelo11 3y ago
Yeah, but to read those articles in full (so far), I'd have to have subscribed to The Atlantic, and I just want his stuff.

shafyy 3y ago

I hate that this shitty company (Substack) has become synonymous to newsletter or blog. The submission literally links to his newsletter on Buttondown.

Michelangelo11 3y ago
The issue is, as I said in another comment here, that his newsletter doesn't have his full-length articles. It links to his articles in The Atlantic, and you have to be a subscriber to The Atlantic to read them.
- mburns 3y ago
  This full-length (albeit short) article is him announcing he’s leaving The Atlantic. So… problem solved?
  - Michelangelo11 3y ago
    Consider the possibility that the problem is not having to subscribe to The Atlantic per se, but having to subscribe to a magazine to read just one of its writers -- and that, perhaps, the problem may get worse because Ed Yong might start writing for multiple magazines that each ask you to subscribe. Honestly can't tell if you're trolling or being dense.
    - shanusmagnus 3y ago
      Another way to think about it is that up till now, if you had subscribed to The Atlantic, you would have got him + a bunch of other writers in the bundle. To me, what the a-la-carte model has revealed is what media-savvy people had always said it would reveal: a bunch of individual writers who all want me to pay $70 a year to get their periodic newsletter updates. "If only my five favorites would get together and do something collectively, I'd pay $100 a year," I thought to myself. "And I'd bet they'd get vastly more subscribers and come out way ahead." Whoever said there are only two business models, bundling and un-bundling, seems to be right, as far as I can tell. I'm looking forward to the next bundling cycle.
      - Michelangelo11 3y ago
        > Another way to think about it is that up till now, if you had subscribed to The Atlantic, you would have got him + a bunch of other writers in the bundle. Wow. I never thought of it that way. It's kind of mind-blowing to think of a magazine as a bundle of writers. Any more insights of this caliber?
        shanusmagnus 3y ago
        I hope you find someone to love you.
        dang 3y ago
        Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html