Dr Ro Smith on Nostr: >What about the fact that authors are now expected to do a lot of their own ...
>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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