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Stephen Downes

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It's the same old story that has played out countless times as new platforms emerge that promise to help creators make money. So long as they depend on centralized services (and therefore, centralized marketing) a long tail will develop, creating a few winners (usually, those with prior connections or some other advantage) and a much larger struggling underclass. Why would we think subscription-based newsletter services would be any different?

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