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Dr Ro Smith | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 >What about the fact that authors are now expected to do a lot of their own marketing?

Or the fact that an advance is no longer received as a whole IN ADVANCE.

Or the fact that publishing contracts are now coming out with clauses that require permission to feed your works into the plagiarism machines?

Or the fact that the biggest publishing houses are unrepentant about using AI 'art' on their covers?>
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Dr Ro Smith | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 >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