Eventually I will have so many paid substack subscriptions that the writers will get together and charge one flat fee for all their writing in one place and thereby reinvent the magazine.
Eventually I will have so many paid substack subscriptions that the writers will get together and charge one flat fee for all their writing in one place and thereby reinvent the magazine.
Yup, exactly. I want a magazine frankly! I don't want to have to subscribe individually to a bunch of different writers then do the work of trying to find new quality writing as well.... this is what I used to pay for a magazine for!
Eventually I will have so many paid substack subscriptions that the writers will get together and charge one flat fee for all their writing in one place and thereby reinvent the magazine.
Yup, exactly. I want a magazine frankly! I don't want to have to subscribe individually to a bunch of different writers then do the work of trying to find new quality writing as well.... this is what I used to pay for a magazine for!
Astute point. This is exactly whatтАЩs happening with streaming. We went through the whole rigmarole to get a new cable TV.
Reinvent it by going back to its original form. Many of the journals that defined the Republic of Letters were, in essence, writers' collectives.