Well, no, it pays a few authors tremendous riches and pays a lot more authors enough to at least live on You can say the same thing about self-publishing, too, but there the numbers are way more skewed
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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