Substack is leading the pack and offering services traditionally filled by a publisher, including editors and even health care. Worth revisiting Ben Thompson’s profile of Substack and interview with their founders from 2019.

I love the newsletter model, even as my inbox is overstuffed with more newsletters than I could possibly ever read. I tend to forward most of them to Feedbin to read via NetNewsWire, a bit of an interface hack that doesn’t really address the problem of abundance and a la carte payment. Solving for allowing niche publishers to work at scale, which has been a basic promise of the internet for decades, while packaging in a user friendly remains the publishing problem to crack.