pulp fiction has always been an industry, and the only reason why china is powering ahead right now is because historic anglosphere publishing corporations are all conservative, racist, and pretentious
https://restofworld.org/2022/china-romance-novels/
what concerns me the most about these new platforms is ⓐ globalization making it difficult for workers to organize, and ⓑ DRM and the complete lack of archival copies for even the most popular and significant works
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i think contemporary english readers generally do not realize how many of what we today consider classics were originally written for cheap and published in a serialized fashion in some magazine
@Lady Dickens, for example, wrote Like That because he got paid by the word