AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for journalism

Re:AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business mo... by Quigley13 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:09PM (#17240402)

Question: Why is the price of a subscription significantly higher than the price of a book? Serious question. I read the first chapter and found it quite interesting and I have been considering subscribing, but one of the main reasons that I did not subscribe was that it seemed like the price would end up being much higher than the price for a book. I do like the fact that most of the money goes to the author.

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Re:AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business mo... by MattTaibbi on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:12PM (#17240440)

Well, you'll probably end up getting two books over the course of the year, or something on the order of it -- This book is likely to be finished by September, and then I'll be starting on something new (I have a couple of projects I'm working on now). So over the course of 12 months, it will work out to be quite a lot of stuff. Thanks in any case for taking a look.

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Re:AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business mo... by Quigley13 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:25PM (#17240587)

I appreciate your response. I will think again about subscribing. I would love to get hooked on books the way that I seem to get hooked on mediocre television like Game of Thrones and Westworld. I think it would definitely be better than reading the news every day.

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