It's time for a "Fair Trade"-style revolution in the writing industry to get around the bottlenecks of middlemen and monopolized distribution channels. Are you ready to help?
Yeah. Not every reader is a writer, but almost certainly every writer is a reader. And still, with us sitting right there to ask, the publishing industry has never seemed interested in asking us what we'd like to read or what we'd like to write. They just say, "This is the machine. This is what the machine eats. This is what the machine spits out. It's a hunnert years old and it'll probably break if we fiddle with it," without understanding that if it's that clunky and clogged and fragile, it needs to overhauled, if not replaced.
I feel seen and heard, as both writer and reader.
Yeah. Not every reader is a writer, but almost certainly every writer is a reader. And still, with us sitting right there to ask, the publishing industry has never seemed interested in asking us what we'd like to read or what we'd like to write. They just say, "This is the machine. This is what the machine eats. This is what the machine spits out. It's a hunnert years old and it'll probably break if we fiddle with it," without understanding that if it's that clunky and clogged and fragile, it needs to overhauled, if not replaced.