Does No One Buy Books? Reaction-response to Big 5 Publisher Drama Post

Publishing is Designed to Make Most Authors Feel Like Losers Even While the Industry Makes Money

Russell Nohelty, of Kickstarter fame, responded with a brilliant newsletter talking about the controversial article I shared the other day. For any of the conclusions based on the Big 5 data, a dozen other conclusions can be made—which is what his newsletter was about. But then he shared this, which I thought we should also consider here on authormedia.social.

Long article, but interesting from someone inside the publishing industry who explains why it’s still a good thing going.