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Time for a new adventure
The long history of paid niche publications
Newsletters in the Internet age
The difficulty of many-to-many payments in publishing
Substack
Platforms want to have payments but don’t want to build or run payments
A deep dive into newsletter fund flows
Every society shapes and is shaped by its infrastructure layers
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Duration
~20 minutes (20K characters)
Release date
Jan 6, 2023