Re:Top highest-earning Substack newsletters generate over $2...
by njarboe on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:02PM
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Maybe this is true but it would be nice to have a technical solution in place that would facilitate a 5 cent payment so people could experiment with it. The US treasury of FED should do it at this point as it seems no one else will.
Re:Top highest-earning Substack newsletters generate over $2...
by ghaff on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:14PM
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Many startup failures in the dot-com era. Not sure why this should be a US Treasury service given there's a well-developed financial system in the US that facilitates lots of other payment options. (And have you ever looked at the hilariously barely late 90s website of TreasuryDirect?)
I'm also not sure I want the US government deciding which publications are proper participants in an official micropayments scheme.
Re:Top highest-earning Substack newsletters generate over $2...
by bryanlarsen on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:10AM
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Blendle is 20-50 cents per article. I doubt that lowering their prices to 5 cents would make a material difference.
Small $$ subscriptions are a different variant of the same problem.
To be fair, many of us used to have a bunch of magazine subscriptions--some of which were only $1-2 per month but I'm not sure the same mindset still applies.
We do see things like Apple News+ that aggregate non-free content and perhaps that's something of a solution. We'll see. I do pay for the New York Times and The Economist but I mostly won't subscribe to individual sites online.