>All of this can be boiled down to one thing: the publishing industry has sacrificed the written art on the altar of shareholder profit.

It feels unlikely that I can have a book traditionally published before the industry entirely fragments into a death churn of meaninglessness.

It guts me that all of this happened in the last 20 years or so.

It could all be undone by regulation, but I don't see any will to make that happen.

I feel like my childhood dream is already over. I missed the window