Re:Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made...
by fiatjaf on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:49AM
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Honest question: do people actually pay for reading a newsletter?
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Re:Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made...
by internet_jockey on Thursday February 08, 2018 @03:17PM
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Fair question. The short answer is "hell yes." We already have writers on Substack making a lot of money with their newsletters. For instance, our first publisher, Bill Bishop, told the WSJ that he's making more money from his newsletter than he ever made from a corporate salary (he's a former exec and serial entrepreneur). Ben Thompson of Stratechery has many thousands of subscribers paying at least $100 a year. We can't share the private data of other publishers, but we have enough info to confidently state, that, yes, many people are happy to pay for newsletters.