[HN Gopher] Ye olde Substack: publishing's hot new business mode... ___________________________________________________________________ Ye olde Substack: publishing's hot new business model has 17th- century origins Author : helsinkiandrew Score : 10 points Date : 2021-01-30 07:10 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.economist.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.economist.com) | klelatti wrote: | Robert Cottrell of 'The Browser' newsletter gave a really good | interview [1] on the North Star podcast about the emergence of | newsletters and the future of journalism. | | Interestingly, of course it's partly about seeking out writers | whose work you value - when of course the Economist does not | identify its writers on each piece. | | Also, The Browser started on Substack but has now moved to Ghost | - presumably to lower their costs and get more control - a good | example of a major risk to the Substack model. | | https://perell.com/podcast/robert-cottrell/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-01-31 23:01 UTC)