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One counterpoint is that there still are/have been plenty of indie publishing houses who take on books that the Big Five-type publishers won't take, but even th
by spondylosaurus 3y ago
One counterpoint is that there still are/have been plenty of indie publishing houses who take on books that the Big Five-type publishers won't take, but even then those indie books are printed at a much smaller scale and don't generally make it into big retail bookstores. And so we arrive back at the discoverablity problem :P
- 23B1 3y ago"don't generally make it into big retail bookstores" ...which of course use the same algorithmic approach as Amazon to maximizing popularity and volume over quality or creativity. The book marketplace is now the equivalent of H&M or McDonalds.