This week there's a big controversy at Substack after they fired an editor for a post critical about the platform. Plus a look at how to figure out the lifetime value of your subscribers.

And the featured newsletters this week cover financial markets, storybooks for kids, baking, productivity, and more!

Articles & Tools

Substack’s promise to be different than a newsroom is getting messy — www.theverge.com

After an editor of the Forever Wars newsletter was fired for editing a post critical of the platform, writers are seeing the limits of Substack’s promise to them.

How much is a newsletter subscriber really worth? — sparkloop.app

The lifetime value of a subscriber is your newsletter's most important metric. Discover yours in minutes with this guide and calculator.

Email Architect — www.getemailarchitect.com

Organize, manage and write your emails directly in Notion

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Tech Productivity — techproductivity.co

A newsletter featuring tools and articles on productivity, remote work, and more

Featured Newsletters

Valuabl — inboxreads.co

An independent, value-oriented journal of financial markets. Valuabl helps investors pop bubbles, buy low, and sell high.

Voisegram — inboxreads.co

Voisegram gets you a real storybook in your inbox, every day. Magical stories that print on a single sheet of paper, written by people from around the world to set your child on a journey across lands, ideas and imagination.

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Newsletter Ad Network — www.paved.com

Earn money with every send, automatically.

Common Sense, Isn’t, Common — inboxreads.co

Practical advice about how to live a happy, well-adjusted, self reliant, non-conformist life. Sent Weekly.

Baking + Business by BakingTogether — inboxreads.co

Baking Together is a publisher and community for homebakers. It showcases recipe bundles, tools for bakers and write about how to run a baking business.

Remotely Productive — inboxreads.co

Brain teasing stories on how to live an better life, through the lens of a dad working from home.

Nani the Money — inboxreads.co

Breaking down cryptocurrencies and the state of our modern monetary system via stories and commentary.

From Julia's Desk — inboxreads.co

A newsletter about film, culture and politics with an extra portion of content on Central and Eastern Europe.

Bracero — inboxreads.co

Discussion of philosophy, politics, identity, and collapse from a libertarian socialist/communalist perspective.

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