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Re:We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS a... by moviewise on Friday March 11, 2022 @04:49AM (#30638096)
> Or even a pay-per-article model - some of the free newsletters I'm on publish paywalled things I'm interested in, but I don't want to subscribe to the full deal. But I'd pre-load my account with $50 and pay a couple of dollars for a single article.

This is an excellent idea! Tracking individual articles for payment, rather than the whole publication/newsletter, would allow for bundling in a way that respects Substack's intentions of preserving/respecting the author and reader relationship.

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Re:We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS a... by tomaskafka on Friday March 11, 2022 @07:22AM (#30638950)
I have seen tens of attempts to do this in a past decade, and it never seems to work.

People say they want this, but in reality almost no article seems to be worthy of eg. $5, even though you would be absolutely ok subscribing for $5 to a newsletter with 2 posts per month, one of which you won't read ...

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