I have slowly but steadily gained a few hundred subscribers who read my Substack, which is a place for history-oriented articles of social commentary, and is therefore rather opinion based and editorial in style. It includes some audio and video but is mostly text based articles. Occasionally, my work is overly academic and would appeal to a more specialist audience (I believe we are in need of a new kind of history journal that is academically oriented). So, I will be doing a journal that is deliberately more academic in tone and approach. I am keeping my current Substack free and I am looking to monetize the new journal (some of the incentives would include an audio version of my most recent book, which is a history of the Supreme Court, in the form of chapter length podcast episodes). I am unsure whether to make this an optional pay tier section on my original Substack, or make a section that simply promotes and links to a separate Substack, which would be its own, paying subscriber based publication (and, as stated, would aim to be a new kind of academic history journal) . I am very much leaning toward the latter, but would appreciate your opinion. The two may both be rooted in history, but they would be very different tonally, and different in terms of their aims. I appreciate any thoughts you might be able to offer. Thanks.
thanks, for the post. how do you go about doing more than one substack? I too have multiple interests that are not to be illustrated in Venn diagrams. Do you subscribe under multiple identities? The "Three Substacks of Eve?"
Since you are one of my original Muses of the Multiples, (this was one of the very first articles I ever read on Substack amidst my initial foray as I considered moving my stuff to Substack) I'm back here because now that I'm in the midst of trying to set them all up, I have run into a major snag. I explained it here: https://substack.com/@izzyalchemist/note/c-16904675
I am quite anal retentive, too, and I'm willing to deal with the issues required for multiple publications. But it's this identity crisis that is really hanging me up. Your thoughts would be soooo appreciated.
Do subscribers pay separately for each newsletter?
I have slowly but steadily gained a few hundred subscribers who read my Substack, which is a place for history-oriented articles of social commentary, and is therefore rather opinion based and editorial in style. It includes some audio and video but is mostly text based articles. Occasionally, my work is overly academic and would appeal to a more specialist audience (I believe we are in need of a new kind of history journal that is academically oriented). So, I will be doing a journal that is deliberately more academic in tone and approach. I am keeping my current Substack free and I am looking to monetize the new journal (some of the incentives would include an audio version of my most recent book, which is a history of the Supreme Court, in the form of chapter length podcast episodes). I am unsure whether to make this an optional pay tier section on my original Substack, or make a section that simply promotes and links to a separate Substack, which would be its own, paying subscriber based publication (and, as stated, would aim to be a new kind of academic history journal) . I am very much leaning toward the latter, but would appreciate your opinion. The two may both be rooted in history, but they would be very different tonally, and different in terms of their aims. I appreciate any thoughts you might be able to offer. Thanks.
thanks, for the post. how do you go about doing more than one substack? I too have multiple interests that are not to be illustrated in Venn diagrams. Do you subscribe under multiple identities? The "Three Substacks of Eve?"
Since you are one of my original Muses of the Multiples, (this was one of the very first articles I ever read on Substack amidst my initial foray as I considered moving my stuff to Substack) I'm back here because now that I'm in the midst of trying to set them all up, I have run into a major snag. I explained it here: https://substack.com/@izzyalchemist/note/c-16904675
I am quite anal retentive, too, and I'm willing to deal with the issues required for multiple publications. But it's this identity crisis that is really hanging me up. Your thoughts would be soooo appreciated.