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Re:Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs by seemslegit on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:41AM (#23711214)
> Here's how this plays out. The successful writers on Substack will eventually leave the platform for more control over their audience and lower fees (there's a reason Ben Thompson isn't on Substack).

Except the entire model of substack is based on writers not having access even to their audience's mail addresses.

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Re:Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs by sails on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:39AM (#23711510)
Substack writers do have access to their signups and can easily export them.

https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037465992-...

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Re:Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs by edouard-harris on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:21AM (#23712802)
Yes. This has been the case from the very beginning of their platform, as far as I'm aware.
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Re:Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs by chinathrow on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:42AM (#23711525)
> Except the entire model of substack is based on the writers not having access even to their audience's mail addresses.

Is that correct as of today?

https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037465992-...

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Re:Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs by seemslegit on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:03AM (#23711646)
I'm not sure, their Publisher Agreement seems to also have been very recently revised to remove some very strong prohibitions against trying to gather your subscribers data on your own so maybe they realized it's a bad idea - do you know what information is included in the csv ?
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Re:Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs by ves on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:52AM (#23711273)
well, you may not have their address, but you have their inbox.

“References and supplemental video content available on my website at ...”

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Re:Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs by seemslegit on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:17AM (#23711409)
Great, so now you have a website to maintain and pay for and your customers with their associated revenue are still owned by substack.

Getting paying subscribers to change their subscription method is huge friction and risk of churn, the more revenue you already have established on substack the bigger the risk cost of trying to move away, aka the boiled frog business model.

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