One answer is that libraries and archives can’t preserve everything. Even the world of “endless” digital storage still has a need for curation and long term preservation interventions.
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Another answer is that creators need to take personal responsibility for their creations. The important creators will have their materials enter an archive as part of their estate.
The practical answer is that well-resourced research libraries will pay to access newsletters that fit within the organization’s collecting mission and preserve those in a dark archive until they enter the public domain after the life of the author + 70 years.
Everything not specifically preserved will fade into the ether after substack is acquired by private equity and its servers are turned off or left to rot.
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