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It'll be interesting to see how substack tries to hold these authors and avoids fading into the background. Their monetization options are the best in the indus
by xrd 2y ago
It'll be interesting to see how substack tries to hold these authors and avoids fading into the background. Their monetization options are the best in the industry right now, but I wonder how authors feel about the network effect they receive. I'm surprised Chris Hughes didn't find a way to pivot New Republic to a substack competitor somehow.
- ghaff 2y agoThere's just so much volume out there I subscribe to some newsletters and podcasts but don't pay for any of them. There just isn't a lot that is individually must have.
- xrd 2y agoI subscribe to a ton as well. The production quality isn't anything like NYT or Rolling Stone used to be. That's probably coming. But it'll be interesting to find a sweet spot in between tiktok videos and well written and beautifully presented information. That's a hard place to be consistently.
- ghaff 2y agoNYT (and The Economist) are IMO pretty good but they're expensive--especially relative to free. If I were in school or just out of it, I probably wouldn't pay for them like I did for Time and Newsweek when that was more or less your source of news other than subscribing to the big city newspaper or watching the evening news. There are good magazines out there but overall there's been a decline in quality and, at least in the political/cultural arena, they're mostly some rich person's pet project--though that was historically also the case to some degree.
- slavik81 2y agoThe price of The Economist has increased rather dramatically in the past few years. In 2012, a print subscription was 137 CAD/yr (183 CAD/yr in 2024 dollars). In 2024 a print subscription is now 429 CAD/yr.