1. How scalable is the pivot to subscriptions and how does it effect democracy?
2. Can the news-media organizations continue with the kind of pre-internet organization that they continue to do? What are the changes required?
3. What does a news-media organization look like in the age of hyper connectivity and real time information exchange? How is it different from the pre-internet news organization?
What is the new model that you're proposing?
AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for journalism
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#33Re: AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for journalism
#34Have you finished the whole novel already (and just publishing chapter by chapter) or are you writing and changing as you go? Also, this might make more sense for non-fiction work but what are your thoughts on letting a book evolve over time? So the writer updates and changes the content as s/he learns new things (and obviously lets readers know when edited).
I would say we're more than half done. We still need to power through a big chunk of the story. It's kind of a high-wire act but we're both enjoying it.
I think letting a book evolve can have varying consequences. In reality you want it all to be stylistically consistent. But you can't publish 200 pages, see a problem, and change it on the fly. (Dostoyevsky appeared to do this in "The Possessed," changing from first to third person and back). On the other hand, the pressure of having to meet deadlines might make it more intense. So it could go either way. A lot of great, great books have been serialized and a lot of them had an hard-driving feel to them (In Cold Blood, I think, wss one, as were the Fear and Loathing books).
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#35What genres currently are outperforming cryptocurrency newsletters?
Honestly, we are seeing a lot of strength in the crypto newsletters on Substack and we love them. There are plenty of genres that are out-performing some of them – from absurdist humor to bankruptcy industry coverage to foreign policy – but the truth is that the writer matters more than the subject. People subscribe to writers they trust. Those reader-writer relationships are key in this world.
Does Substack allow po - I mean, erotica? Asking for a friend.
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#36What business relationship, if any, exists between Mr. Taibbi and Substack?
Matt is a publisher on the Substack platform. We take a 10% cut of his subscription revenue.
Because he is an established author, and we're really excited about this new format of serialized fiction, we have also been putting extra product development and publicity effort behind his publication. We think of this as Doing a Thing that Doesn't scale, as in http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was already debunked dumbass
The excerpts linked from reddit are stuff that was published in the Exile. Are you saying they’re fake? Can I get a link to the debunking? Thanks.
https://twitter.com/alayne_f
Keep in mind they literally have 0 accusers, and when the women they worked with were interviewed they all had 0 complaints, and even at the time of publishing the book was categorized as satire. The name "The Exile", IIRC, refers to the fact they were a satire of the piece of shit Americans that Ames and Taibbi witnessed coming to Russia as the USSR was falling in order to ravage the country in its moment of weakness.
Next let's confront Steven Colbert on his past as a right wing nutjob.
Re: AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for journalism
#38What business relationship, if any, exists between Mr. Taibbi and Substack?
Matt is a publisher on the Substack platform. We take a 10% cut of his subscription revenue. Because he is an established author, and we're really excited about this new format of serialized fiction, we have also been putting extra product development and publicity effort behind his publication. We think of this as Doing a Thing that Doesn't scale, as in http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
Thanks for answering! Does Substack compensate him in any other way besides tailoring features to his work?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was already debunked dumbass
The excerpts linked from reddit are stuff that was published in the Exile. Are you saying they’re fake? Can I get a link to the debunking? Thanks.
Seems like he has been able to win legal settlements to get publications to retract or correct:
The Nation: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/963869669076688899
Newsweek: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/977984283024424961
Guardian:
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was already debunked dumbass
The excerpts linked from reddit are stuff that was published in the Exile. Are you saying they’re fake? Can I get a link to the debunking? Thanks.
His wiki[1] says "Women portrayed in the book have gone on record to defend Taibbi, stating that none of the sexual harassment portrayed in the book ever happened."[2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi
[2] https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/the-destructi...