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.
No one buys books any more, the author says while using AI to commit art theft.
Yeah that image is most likely AI generated. I did a reverse image search and that’s the only occurance of it.
This is 100% AI art because of how it depicts the books, the text in the books and because of the inconsistent focus/blur.