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Sad but true. The publishing industry (think Penguin books) is full of independently wealthy white women - “This unpaid internship is a fantastic career opportu
by fire_lake 2y ago
Sad but true. The publishing industry (think Penguin books) is full of independently wealthy white women - “This unpaid internship is a fantastic career opportunity!”
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoEdit: disregard the comment. Sadly enough, independently wealthy people are virtually the only ones who could actually publish consistently and thus possibly earn something out of the whole endeavour — under the assumption that any single book by an unknown / non-celebrity author has equal probability of being a hit. Reality seems to be that most books are failures, publishers prefer celebrities as that reduces marketing costs, and they prefer established audiences. This is a good read on the topic: https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
- delfinom 2y agohttps://slate.com/culture/2024/04/book-sales-publishing-industry-statistics-substack-penguin-lawsuit.html https://slate.com/culture/2024/04/book-sales-publishing-indu... A rebuttal to that article.
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoVery interesting, thank you for the new knowledge!
- TMWNN 2y agoHistorically and today, a sought-after job for a young woman out of college who has majored in, say, English with wealthy parents is in publishing/media in NYC, with the parents paying the bills (publishing doesn't pay very much at the entry level). It's a genteel job that the parents can tell their friends about, and the daughter can meet suitable men; the classic marriage among these types has the husband working in finance and the wife in media.