I have never been more disillusioned with traditional publishing. On the journalistic side, the gate keeping and irresponsible editorial bias of the NYT and their ilk. The inability to face reality. And on the literary side, the power imbalances that have and will always enable men like Neil Gaiman while ignoring other writers. The way young black authors are kept out of publishing. The book deals that go to influencers whose ghostwriters pump out the same self help bullshit again and again.

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I can’t help but agree with it - and join you in disillusionment.
I also find it hard to see a way to start changing things.

A lot of people put their faith on self-publishing, especially onchain, and there’s a lot of power and beauty on going that road. But it essentially hits similar walls as in trad publishing, especially discoverability and the need to hustle and create an audience before authors can receive attention and be taken seriously. So basically playing the numbers game that the ~~creator economy imposes on writers, artists and creatives of all kinds.