Today almost all creative work is digitized and essentially rented — lowering payouts, devaluing work, and redirecting the lion’s share of rewards to the platforms hosting the work rather than the creators themselves.
Yancey Strickler • The old shit doesn't work anymore
consumerism for content’s sake begins to look less like frivolous spending and more like a basic necessity, which everyone “deserves”.
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
Like all its competitors, PRH distributes the books of other publishers as well as their own. This is a necessary component of publishers’ businesses in the modern era because print book sales, particularly outside Amazon, are inexorably declining and all publishers need more “throughput” to make their operations—warehouses and fulfillment systems
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It’s one thing to imagine people going for this new model of self-publishing (free or low cost, immediate, built-in access to a large market of readers, royalty upside) versus the vanity publishing model of yore (pseudo-hardcover, obscenely expensive, slow turnaround, and then author’s burden of marketing and sales, not to mention the requirement o
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