Paid newsletters and writing as product
3 min readSep 3, 2021
The Times recently announced a slew of newsletters limited to paid subscribers. They’re converting existing newsletters to paid and creating new offerings explicitly for this push.
This effort drives home the heart of newsletters’ success — they’re a pure distillation of writing into a digital product. Micropayments are too clunky. Wide-ranging subscriptions rely on heavy usage, while most news…