I've been thinking about this lately as well. Every Goodreads newsletter I get, no matter the theme or variety is packed full of the same corporate looking slop. Same cover style. Pushing 'female authors' and POC writers on me like it's something new or rare.
I'm thinking they'll sink under their own incompetance, or shrink the market like comics, once you drive out at least 90% of the male readers. Even hard sci-fi is wrecked at the moment. With every new book being a 'cozy slice of life, strong female lead, and questioning what it means to be a queer, neuro divergent blah blah in the 32nd century'
I think the covers are so obviously pandering, it's just for women to hold and virtue signal on the commute. The actual book never being read. Woke accessories.
Book publishing has been a loss-leader for influence peddling for a long time. The whole industry is basically a money-laundering operation so that Regime-approved lackeys can get bribes (e.g. Comey, Vindman, etc) disguised as paychecks for books.
This is most obvious in nonfiction but it applies to fiction too.
I've been thinking about this lately as well. Every Goodreads newsletter I get, no matter the theme or variety is packed full of the same corporate looking slop. Same cover style. Pushing 'female authors' and POC writers on me like it's something new or rare.
I'm thinking they'll sink under their own incompetance, or shrink the market like comics, once you drive out at least 90% of the male readers. Even hard sci-fi is wrecked at the moment. With every new book being a 'cozy slice of life, strong female lead, and questioning what it means to be a queer, neuro divergent blah blah in the 32nd century'
I think the covers are so obviously pandering, it's just for women to hold and virtue signal on the commute. The actual book never being read. Woke accessories.
Book publishing has been a loss-leader for influence peddling for a long time. The whole industry is basically a money-laundering operation so that Regime-approved lackeys can get bribes (e.g. Comey, Vindman, etc) disguised as paychecks for books.
This is most obvious in nonfiction but it applies to fiction too.