Anyways. I am begging you.
Do not enable Publishers that are moving books towards a very clear and blatant attempt as a "Subscription Model"-- towards "DLC Culture for Books".
Do not enable Publishers that split novels into multiple short stories so they can be published three months apart as separate standalone pieces that you're then charge door-stopper prices for something only a fraction of the length.
Do not enable Publishers that keep upping their prices to exorbitant amounts ($16-20+) for a book that isn't even a centimeter thick.
Do not enable Publishers that use AI generated covers repeatedly, and claim "Oh, our artists just didn't realize the stock image they bought was AI!" even *after* someone unearthed the original, near-unaltered AI generated image that the digital artists at said publisher literally had to badly photoshop legs onto the person on the cover because they literally didn't have any legs in the original image.
Do not enable Publishers that parcel out novels into 4 books so they can charge you $80 instead of $15-$20.
Do not enable Publishers who sell completely unedited Wattpad fic with AI generated covers that they're charging you *more* than the full price you'd pay for a fully edited, amazing, doorstopping novel that uses every page with purpose.
Don't support Publishers charging $13 for an ebook that is barely over a hundred pages and can be read in two hours flat, leaving many readers absolutely flabbergasted because they thought from the price they were purchasing a full-length novel.
Don't support Publishers who publish books that are so badly edited, it takes over 50% of a book (often times 100 or 200 pages) for anything in the novel to actually happen outside of filler, because the Publisher and Author are more concerned with marketing a certain number of pages instead of actually putting quality content on the page.
