mleku on Nostr: they favour publishers more than authors because authors have the problem of market ...

they favour publishers more than authors because authors have the problem of market reach and visibility especially when they are new at the trade

publishers can also then become de facto political censors and cultural manipulators, exclude the poor from participating in a technical trade that requires a lot of learning but not so much equipment cost, and thus also limiting the supply of authors to squeeze higher margins out of their sales. same goes for recorded music, and now, software.

the benefit is claimed to be for the creators, but the creators get squeezed, the industry is deliberately limited in supply.

the same basic set of strategies of control exist in many fields, others assign teh power to the state to enforce even the supply of publishers or issuers of credentials, and even the reverse can happen, where banks (also another privileged monopoly benefit class) have flipped the script and turned credentials into a debased currency, and then what we saw after that was the widespread infiltration of people who promote these kinds of top down, market controlling philosophies with universities now full of absolutely outrageously communist professors who also then can control who even gets the credentials at all in intake and in grading.

all of it starts with the king granting monopoly on some kind of business to a rentseeker, and the rest is the miserable history of the last 1000 years.