Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

tedgioia.substack.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 63 posts

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#41

Post by itsoktocry »

quest88 wrote: post #12
jesuscript wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s good critique. Think about how much is conveyed in just a sentence. You wrote three paragraphs to a one sentence reply. How much did one sentence make you think? A lot. In other words, you are proving that our initial takeaway from the opening sentence was valid. How egotistical, to publish your book in a unconventional way, explain that you are doing so, proclaim you are a little like Walter White. How could on…

It's a Twitter hot-take that shouldn't be rewarded. We can expect HNers to be better.

Perhaps your issue is that you believe people can be judged based on their choice of social media, or that your reactions here serve as a "reward" for anything.

HN is not Lake Woebegone, where all of the posters are above average.

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#42

Post by nkko »

hamiltonians wrote: post #8

It helps greatly that he already has a huge brand. Part of the role of the publisher is to promote authors, although that that has changed to favoring social media. It would also seem like writing posts is a way better ROI on time compared to a book.

Yeah, and it looks like that with the Substack and Twitter audience growth comparison he is doing apple and oranges thing while ignoring that he fertilised the orange tree with apples.

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#43

Post by nmpxc »

threatofrain wrote: post #16

I'm surprised that substack shows up so often on HN. It doesn't support syntax highlighting, tables, Latex, and has no widgets for data or interactive visualizations. Perfect for lots of audiences who want long-form writing, but HN?

During the height of the culture wars (probably 2020) it was one of the few outlets with dissenting opinions presented in a credible and well written way.

It is for classic liberals who want free thought, so it seems logical that the site shows up here.

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#44

Post by klelatti »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #31
gregdoesit wrote: post #17

(Disclaimer: I both self-published books and also write a paid newsletter on Substack) The author of this article makes the point that Substack pays ~90% in revenue, versus traditional publishers which do ~10%. While this is true, I do think the author seems to deliberately avoid mentioning the self-publishing platforms like Gumroad, Podia etc which allow authors to keep 95-96.5% of revenue when publishing books, and…

> A real (financial) pull of publishing a book via a monthly, paid newsletter is the higher revenue per customer. A customer won’t pay more than, say, $40 for a book. But they’ll more likely pay ~$120 by paying $10/month for a year. See also how Steven Sinofsky is publishing his book series Hardcore Software on Substack with the option to pay up to $300/year to get a final, printable PDF edition of the series once fi…

Is anyone else surprised that Sinofsky, who must have made - at a minimum - tens of millions of dollars at MS, feels the need to charge at all - let alone $300 for a pdf - for his memoirs. It’s almost as though he doesn’t want people to read them.

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#45

Post by [deleted] »

DawnQFunk2 wrote: post #23

This is an unlabeled advertisement for substack. Please stop the endless substack spamming. They just lie about the earnings they all have relationships with substack, stop fucking commuting fraud by allowing all these fake “I’m just a random influencer and I love substack” posts, it’s illegal to not disclose that they are paid to say this.

[deleted]

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#47

Post by klelatti »

nmpxc wrote: post #43
threatofrain wrote: post #16

I'm surprised that substack shows up so often on HN. It doesn't support syntax highlighting, tables, Latex, and has no widgets for data or interactive visualizations. Perfect for lots of audiences who want long-form writing, but HN?

During the height of the culture wars (probably 2020) it was one of the few outlets with dissenting opinions presented in a credible and well written way. It is for classic liberals who want free thought, so it seems logical that the site shows up here.

There were lots and lots of blogs with similar opinions.

It’s really the case that they played up their hosting of some controversial writers in order to build publicity - hence one of their founders appears on Joe Rogan etc.

You can admire their stance and business model or not but let’s not pretend they were out of the ordinary.

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#48

Post by rajman187 »

math-dev wrote: post #24
rajman187 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

have you tried Quip ( https://quip.com )

How is this related to blogging / text editing?

> I challenge anyone to find a more enjoyable _writing_ experience than Medium in the world of online editors, barring Google Docs

I was responding to to the bit about online editors, and Quip has a very nice collaborative editor that has a lot of useful functionality (which eventually makes its way into Google Docs)

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#49

Post by math-dev »

rajman187 wrote: post #48
math-dev wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this related to blogging / text editing?

> I challenge anyone to find a more enjoyable _writing_ experience than Medium in the world of online editors, barring Google Docs I was responding to to the bit about online editors, and Quip has a very nice collaborative editor that has a lot of useful functionality (which eventually makes its way into Google Docs)

Interesting - thanks, I’ll check it out sometime

Re: I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack

#50

Post by ekianjo »

paulgb wrote: post #35
DawnQFunk2 wrote: post #23

This is an unlabeled advertisement for substack. Please stop the endless substack spamming. They just lie about the earnings they all have relationships with substack, stop fucking commuting fraud by allowing all these fake “I’m just a random influencer and I love substack” posts, it’s illegal to not disclose that they are paid to say this.

How do you know it’s a paid ad by Substack? I’m perfectly willing to believe that, but the simpler explanation seems to be that it’s an ad for the author’s book.

On the net your default assumption for someone promoting something is that its paid. Its not always true but its far more often the case than not.
Post reply on HN