[HN Gopher] Ye olde Substack: publishing's hot new business mode...
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       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)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
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       | 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/
        
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