Will Substack Be Spotified?
A continuation of the 'winner-take-all' trend in the arts
A NYT piece (gift link) on how Spotify essentially destroyed the ability of mid-level musicians to earn a living with its $10 a month “all you can listen to” subscription model makes me worry about the future of Substack. The NYT piece warns that Spotify is about to do the same thing to audio books and possibly ebooks that it did to music.
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