Five Reasons Publishing Killed the Novel

Publishing was supposed to protect the novel. Instead, it became one of the main reasons literary fiction is dying. In this video, I go through five structural failures of the modern publishing industry:

-Ideological conformity and the rise of sensitivity readers
-Risk aversion—chasing safe bets over bold work
-Declining editorial competence
-The collapse of male readership
-The death of the monoculture

Check it out below.

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Nick