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Substack could create the future of books - by Elle Griffin

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There is a market for reading here, and writers are being paid directly by their subscribers to read here. So why shouldn’t our books live here too? For example, what if our Substack profiles included, not just the posts we’ve written, but also the books we’ve written. Like this: And what if, as we were scrolling through Notes, they were interspersed with carousels of books by the writers we were following. Like this: When we come across a new book we want to read we could save it to our library, a new tab in the Substack app that could look like this: The best part is: We could create these books without any heavy lifting on the part of authors by adding one product feature to Substack: Allow writers to organize their posts into "playlists." YouTube and TikTok already do this—I can create a playlist of my videos that play in the order I put them in. Just imagine if Substack writers could similarly create playlists of our posts, putting them in the right order, and then deciding which

Substack could create the future of books Here’s how that could look. Elle Griffin Apr 29, 2024 489 234 111 Share There are 20 million monthly active subscribers to Substacks. There are over 2 million paid subscriptions to Substacks. There is a market for reading here, and writers are being paid directly by their subscribers to read here. So why shouldn’t our books live here too? For example, what if our Substack profiles included, not just the posts we’ve written, but also the books we’ve written. Like this: And what if, as we were scrolling through Notes, they were interspersed with carousel

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