The data she highlights is very interesting even if I have the knowledge gaps about the book ecosystem that prevent me from seeing the full picture. I am just reading “capitalism sucks” over and over again.
What’s depressing for me is writers seem like pawns from how these big publishing houses talk about them. So many interesting potential authors and potential books must have been discouraged from even putting pen to paper while god knows how many acres of forest have been decimated to print drivel on them comjured by hacks like Michelle Obama and her ghostwriters.
That is extremely inconsiderate. How is the poor Penguin shareholder going to buy his fifth yacht now.
Don’t worry, they’ll outlaw physical books as soon as it occurs to them that if everything is digital, they can sell us a license to read books