Re:Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
by skinkestek on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @09:34AM
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I'd say only because there haven't been any good options yet.
I happily paid for Blendle as long as they had my best interest in mind (refundable) and only didn't pay more because there wasn't more relevant articles for me.
I'll happily pay for substack etc as well if there is something really interesting, but it either needs to be very interesting, small amounts or someone needs to come along with a real all-you-can-read-model like Spotify.
Ideally I want the option to pay pr piece, or pay a bit more for all todays posts from a channel (newspaper).
ADDED: Of course, very few is not no one. "Very few" people in the scheme of things buy a lot of books either but some authors make a lot of money. But if you're betting on how much money a book will bring in, don't give up your day job. And, with respect to journalism, the bar is even higher if you're talking investigative journalism that may not produce results for many months if ever.