The Epilogue draws out the broader implications for the rise of the Atlantic world in the early modern public sphere, demonstrating, first, that what happened in and across the ocean mattered to people at home, and, second, why managing news became a concern for authorities who gradually lost their information monopoly regarding developments across the Atlantic. It reflects on the historiographical repercussions for the fields of Atlantic history and the history of news – making fresh connections to the transoceanic exchange of people, commodities, values, and ideas.