The Publishing Industrial Complex
The commercialization of literature has reached an all-time low. This has been the case for a hot minute now and people have been talking about it but with the advent of everything that is occurring the international scene, it is an important conversation now more than ever. If you're part of a reading space or community, or heck you just like listening to people talk about books, it is impossible to miss the criticisms that have been flinging left and right about the state of contemporary literature. This critique does not stem from a particular genre or author, no. It's roots have taken hold to big publishing houses, literary censorship, marketing and lack of creativity. This is a problem. And when it affects a whole field, best believe it will have consequences for you too. Publishing as a field has been in a slump because for every one or two well-written books, you get fifty of the same half-effort, poorly written novels that exclusively either romance or fantasy (or bo...