No, if the publisher goes out of business the author is fucked The authors are defensive of their publishers because they're pretty sure self-publishing is terrible and doesn't work
Because I genuinely do not think it is the existence of traditional publishing that makes things hard for self-publishers
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And as long as we're not yet living in post-capitalist utopia, the evidence is that the brave new world of online self-publishing is much *worse* in terms of inequality
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The new models for how to compensate labor that don't depend on "keeping information under lock and key" seem far, far more prone to rewarding just a tiny elite of superstars and just leaving everyone else with literally nothing
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