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    1. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

      Devin Madson Retweeted Fonda Lee

      Anyone using the “he’s successful and deserves this, MERIT! MERIT!” or “ITS JUST BUSINESS!” arguments must not understand how this industry (and a lot of other industries) work. Success begets more success, sure. But, and stay with me here... Initial. Success. Is. Manufactured.https://twitter.com/FondaJLee/status/1378852261342846977 …

      Devin Madson added,

      Fonda Lee @FondaJLee
      I hear a publisher is offering ARCs of a big name author's book in multiple collectible editions. Sorry, but that sucks. ARCs are a tool for garnering early industry reviews. They were the one thing every author *used* to be fairly confident their publisher would send out 1/
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    2. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

      Publishing is NOT a meritocracy. Neither trad or self-pub works as “best books rise to the top”. Succeeding in self pub requires you to sink lots of money in marketing because just like in trad, the only thing that really moves the sales needle is MARKETING BUDGET

      6 replies 67 retweets 364 likes
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      Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

      You don’t choose books in a vacuum. You don’t have some innate sense of good taste. Books are marketed to you, by algorithms and the budgets of publishing companies. You can choose not to read the book marketed at you, but you don’t choose which books DO get marketed at you.

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        2. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

          The decision of which books will be the bestsellers/mid list/etc is made in house and the marketing budget allocated accordingly. You’ll hear all about the lead titles and think that’s because they’re the best books of the year, but they’re just the ones with the biggest budget

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        3. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

          And yes, of course word of mouth plays a part. But word of mouth has to start somewhere. If no one is reading it, no one is talking about it, and a big budget buys lots of readers who can then talk about it, building a word of mouth storm no book with a small budget can emulate

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        4. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

          Four fancy arcs to build a big publicity storm for a book whose author is already a major success, while other authors miss out on that marketing budget and in many cases on physical arcs altogether, just further widens the gap between the big name authors and everyone else

          2 replies 19 retweets 225 likes
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        5. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

          If that was down to merit it wouldn’t be quite as enraging, but it’s not. It’s a choice. To pool resources behind certain people and leave the rest to founder. Publishing companies choose to put their money behind what they think will sell/already is/best fits the marketing boxes

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        6. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

          Without considering that not only are those choices often made with unexamined biases in play, but that they actually have the power to change this, to manufacture success for someone whose work doesn’t fit the narrow boxes

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        7. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

          The intersection of marginalisation and the business practice of putting all the money behind a very few already successful names and leaving the rest to sink or swim on their own is not a happy place.

          2 replies 11 retweets 170 likes
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        8. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 5

          It’s frustrating enough to know your next advance will be decided by your sales which is decided by the marketing budget you had no control over, so when those marketing decisions predominantly elevate a specific narrow portion of the community ... the industry needs to change

          4 replies 15 retweets 206 likes
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        9. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 6

          Devin Madson Retweeted HiuGregg  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥗

          Additional and excellent example of how this becomes a vicious cycle and a self-fulfilling prophecy of “what sells”https://twitter.com/HiuGregg/status/1379361660574560257 …

          Devin Madson added,

          HiuGregg  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥗 @HiuGregg
          Dev Dev has a great thread. To add to this... with deep learning, nearly all of what you see on Amazon is personalised via what an algorithm believes you will buy, based on your viewing/purchase history. So when marketing budgets go to white authors... It starts a cycle. https://twitter.com/DevinMadson/status/1379307788157915138 …
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        2. Misago‏ @MisagoMonday Apr 6
          Replying to @DevinMadson

          Guess that explains why amazon's search function is so horrible. Trying to find wlw-themed novels is a fucking slog through a swamp full of crocodiles, and the recommendations also only show typical attractive straight white person romances ;;

          1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
        3. Devin Madson‏ @DevinMadson Apr 6
          Replying to @MisagoMonday

          Gosh yes. So difficult! 😭

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