The issue is, as I said in another comment here, that his newsletter doesn't have his full-length articles. It links to his articles in The Atlantic, and you have to be a subscriber to The Atlantic to read them.
So… problem solved?
Honestly can't tell if you're trolling or being dense.
"If only my five favorites would get together and do something collectively, I'd pay $100 a year," I thought to myself. "And I'd bet they'd get vastly more subscribers and come out way ahead."
Whoever said there are only two business models, bundling and un-bundling, seems to be right, as far as I can tell. I'm looking forward to the next bundling cycle.
Wow. I never thought of it that way. It's kind of mind-blowing to think of a magazine as a bundle of writers.
Any more insights of this caliber?
> the problem may get worse
If you didn’t subscribe to the Atlantic (which it sounds like was the case) this is at worse a wash.
No, unlike with Substack, you don't get access to articles through Buttondown, the payment is just a donation.
> If you didn’t subscribe to the Atlantic (which it sounds like was the case) this is at worse a wash.
So what? Yes, this is a wash, and I didn't say it was worse than before. I just said I wish he'd started a Substack, which would have been better.
Still hard to tell if you're trolling or just cursed with a surplus of density in the wrong areas.
Because that is how he set it up because that is how he explicitly wants it. If he wanted to charge for access, he could, on his current platform. So, yes.
https://buttondown.email/comparisons/substack
> So what? Yes, this is a wash, and I didn't say it was worse than before
You said it “may get worse” but what you described was a wash.
Maybe avoid the repeated insults.