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Medium Newsletters - A new way to connect with readers

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A new way to build relationships and share stories with your Medium audience. With a single click, readers can subscribe to Medium Newsletters from posts published on Medium.

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Finally! how its different than substack? 🤔
major difference for me is you can’t access any of your subscriber emails, all is locked into medium
So, it's a disadvantage for content creators in long term but, good for end-users.
yeah also, for people to subscribe to the medium newsletter, it looks like they need to create a medium account as well
Damn, so they did it to grow their ecosystem and keep up with substack, sorry for being pessimist 😂
haha i don't think saying what we see is pessimistic ! from using it, that's what I experienced. It's really good but yeah but for a newsletter, surely a core feature is seeing who is subscribed - i don't even know who i'm writing to
Hunter
Medium's relaunch of Letters — cleared aimed at the success of . So did Medium try to acquire Substack and were rebuffed, or did they realize they could just reboot the feature internally?
Nope. Just nope. If you don't own the list of subscribers, you haven't really built an audience. This is just you doing free marketing for Medium, and locking yourself and your fans into their ecosystem. Big, unequivocal nope.
Hunter
except that if you join the Medium Partner Program, you're getting paid...
True, but personally I'd rather own my list and monetize it on my own terms. With this model, I'm assuming your subscribers need to be paying Medium members in order for you to make money. And a much smaller percentage of that revenue will make its way back to you than if people signed up for you directly on Substack.
Hunter
This seems a little more like , which is bundling up newsletters, rather than like Substack... similar, but different. This offering is a benefit to Medium subscribers and authors who have decided to publish on Medium.
ahh yes that's a much better comparison, spot on with who it's made for imo