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As it relates to book publishing, I can say from personal experience that the mass-published bookshelf is an absolute trash heap. Most genres are shadows of the

• boznz 2y ago
  Good books are still there (even self-published), but the book scene is absolutely swamped with garbage and "the algorithm" generally does not favor new/unknown authors
• dredmorbius 2y ago
  By way of Tildes and another comment in this thread: "The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction" ...Instead of an eye-blackening scrum over who gets to publish the next Tom Wolfe, nobody’s quite sure that his fresh, satirical voice is worth chancing in the first place. As a consequence of this mode of thinking, literary fiction has fallen to only two percent of the fiction market. From the publishers’ perspective literary fiction is just too risky—and that risk has nothing to do with questions of form or taste. It’s much more simple and less political than that.... <https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-big-five-publishers-have-killed https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-big-five-publishers-h...>