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The best Category Design newsletters

2 newsletters, ranked by editorial quality and how recently they published. Looking for something more specific? Search instead.

categorypirates.news· weekly· Published 7 days ago

Category Pirates is a paid-subscriber newsletter from Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon and Bri Clark on designing new categories, mixing 'Lightning Strike' case studies with weekly breakdowns of business headlines through a category lens. Readers get frameworks, company stories and a promotional push toward paid founding subscriptions and a large archive of mini-books.

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categorypublishers.com· weekly· Published 9 days ago

A newsletter from a category-design-minded author-publisher about using books to establish a new category, with posts on book marketing experiments, business models and book recommendations. Readers get a personal, first-person look at the author's tactics, including word-of-mouth math, certification as a business model, and lessons from other authors' launches.

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