More than three-quarters of the published journal
articles can only be accessed through a Paywall, and if these entities fail to purchase subscriptions of bundled titles,
prices can even approach $32,000 for large journals.
Since then, writers like Judd Legum(who quit his job as editor in chief of ThinkProgress to launch his newsletter Popular Information), Toast founders Nicole Cliffe and Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Slate political correspondent Jamelle Bouie have also used Substack to create paid newsletters(though again,
it's not all behind a Paywall- the platform allows them to publish a mix of free
and paid content).