This is true. Our explicit advice to writers is make your best stuff free. Paid subscriptions unleash writers. With Substack, they can get reach *and* the ability to go deep with the truly interested.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1305164174637506561 …
I understand where you guys are coming from. The model you recommend and get behind officially is the best one for the droves of refugees abandoning mainstream journalistic media. But what's good for the Big Head is not necessarily good for the Long Tail.
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But the whales aren't starting from scratch. In a sense you're mining the fossil fuel of existing reach built up on mass media. My alt advice for newbies would be to make a lot of the best stuff free initially, but then slowly start building long-arc premium paywall content.
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High quality one-offs are still probably best to make free, but if you want to pursue threads across n>3 issues, probably not.
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