“Ultimately, this is a platform for sending newsletters and not serialised fiction. It’s a huge difference.”
-Gulp!-
This seems like a problem if someone on the Substack team is saying this.
The traditional author newsletter was indeed not usually a platform for sending out serialized fiction. Mostly, the authors I knew put news in their newsletters–what’s newly released, what’s on sale, etc. if they wanted to provide content like short stories, they typically shared a teaser, accompanied by a link to their website. Or they packaged it as an ebook and used something like BookFunnel as a delivery system. By the way, I frequently see that from companies as well–they link to blog posts, articles, or whatever, but they don’t send out the whole thing via email.
Of course, Substack is different. But since it’s a vehicle for content as opposed to just announcements, why should the content by limited to traditional news? And if a focus on hard news, informational pieces, etc. was the intent, why are there categories for things like fiction and literature. The messages are at best mixed.
“Ultimately, this is a platform for sending newsletters and not serialised fiction. It’s a huge difference.”
-Gulp!-
This seems like a problem if someone on the Substack team is saying this.
The traditional author newsletter was indeed not usually a platform for sending out serialized fiction. Mostly, the authors I knew put news in their newsletters–what’s newly released, what’s on sale, etc. if they wanted to provide content like short stories, they typically shared a teaser, accompanied by a link to their website. Or they packaged it as an ebook and used something like BookFunnel as a delivery system. By the way, I frequently see that from companies as well–they link to blog posts, articles, or whatever, but they don’t send out the whole thing via email.
Of course, Substack is different. But since it’s a vehicle for content as opposed to just announcements, why should the content by limited to traditional news? And if a focus on hard news, informational pieces, etc. was the intent, why are there categories for things like fiction and literature. The messages are at best mixed.