Key Sentence:
- Author Sir Salman Rushdie will publish his next book for the publishing platform Substack.
- The platform offers the idea of sending books and other writings to email subscribers.
In a post, Sir Salman Rushdie said he hoped to “develop a closer relationship with readers to speak freely. Without intermediaries or guards.” Substack started. As a platform for journalism but has recently attracted novelists. Authors require a subscription to their newsletter, from which the platform takes a discount of usually 10%.
As part of the Substack Pro scheme, it pays some writers “upfront” to post on the platform for the first year. Sir Salman told the New York Times the initial offer would be free. He would end up charging around $5 (£3.60) a month.
No politics
Sir Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for Midnight Children, is perhaps best known for his 1988 Satanic Verses. The work, seen as blasphemous by many Muslims, sparked mass protests and Iran’s supreme leader at the time, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for its author to be killed.
But Sir Salman told the Guardian he didn’t want to write about politics because it “takes over and erases everything else.”
Instead, he says, the new platform allows him, in addition to serializing the book. To enjoy his long-standing ambition of writing for a film. Sir Salman will also receive public feedback on a book before it is fully published for the first time. He told the newspaper he needed an “excellent offer” to change jobs.