Some recent Tomie Kawakami doll photos because I can 😌

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Subscription services like Kindle Unlimited have offered short term dividends to slop merchants because they're all-you-can-eat book buffets. No per-unit cost to buyers Ask people to pay £4.99 for an e-copy of a book nobody wrote that reads like shit, and you'll quickly see the problem

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I'm not even saying this as a writer or publisher - but as someone who's worked in research consulting (including for trad pubs) for 20 years It's. Not. Sustainable. Your new business model is shit and will fail

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We've let the publishing industry - like the film, TV and music industries - become a parasite sector for VC capital. The people who actually make the stuff that's sold to end customers (readers, here) are now, somehow, on the bottom of the run financially It's not sustainable

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Without writers, publishers have no business model - whatever the C-suite might be telling themselves People who buy books don't actually want to read slop. And nobody, reader or not, wants to *pay* for slop

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