What do you call a newsletter writer? "Blogger" seems wrong even though the sector is trying to kill/substitute blogs and claim the term. "Writer" seems too broad. "Substacker" seems too specific to the market leading brand.
Hmm. I am not sure about this. The most profitable newsletters are analyst content, but the median newsletter is more cultural commentary and op-ed'ing. Anyone have statistics? https://twitter.com/alexqgb/status/1571693377258921985…
I think the broad unifying feature is that it is pseudo-public content built around individuals or cozyweb redoubts. Unless you're subscribed, you only get to see the public posts. There's something besides money-making to this access control. An element of discourse control.
Hmm... yeah, the difference between bloggers and newsletterers (I think we'll default to this out of convenience despite the awkwardness) is drawing a boundary around the discourse. It's like a small city state where a blog is more like a storefront for free stuff in a metro.
There's enough competition in the space that that's not accurate, plus normatively I don't like validating monopolistic brand-capture of a medium. Especially email which is at least still a cosmetic commons despite capture by gmail etc.
Then do you have data? I see plenty of ghost, buttondown, and even good old mailchimp still going
if you claim to be descriptive gotta back it with the numbers
C'mon dude... that's a wildly non-representative sample. The people who use readwise are definitely NOT typical. The read-later world is a whole different thing.