>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
Dr Ro Smith /
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2023-09-24 09:12:13
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