In a perfect world the steady reporting on Substack and the world of book publishing would feature a stream of all the authors and publishers who turned down the well-financed subscription service’s offers, but that’s not how it works. First came the breaking news in the NY Post that Substack was going “to disrupt book publishing” with the high-profile signing of journalist Zack O’Malley Greenburg for a serialized book, We Are All Musicians Now. Then we learned about at length about the company joining the “burgeoning business” of book content by serializing two chapters of Anand Giridharadas’s book first published […]
