ALRIGHT LISTEN UP BITCHES
I'm getting a hint of the pissed at some shit around RWA so we are gonna talk. (Disclaimer: writing and its history are a special interest of mine, I know a lot about it but do not have a degree, if you catch misinfo, tell me)
I saw someone say that POD might not be considered 'real' publishing, so we gonna have a QUICK history lesson. Publishing started with some motherfucker hand. Printing. Every. Single. Letter. There was no handy button to press and make a million copies of your book. Everything was "publish on demand." I'm serious. Think about how hard you have to focus to make your writing pretty. Now imagine doing that every day for months. To hand print one book. And then one interesting dude invented the printing press. And publishing was still "publish on demand" for a while. Now at a certain point the industry morphed to what it is today (blah blah thou shalt commit adultery, blah blah Martin Luther is a smart motherfucker, blab blah newspapers, blah blah computers, blah blah fuck McMillan blah), but understand that this all started with some high and fancy noble asking a monk to hand print him a really pretty book for a shitwhack of gold coins he liberated from his peasants.
Now there is a reason that people say that "POD and Self-publishing isn't real publishing," and that reason is classism. Seriously, the cheap, low entry options aren't real publishing because it isn't "selective" enough. And all you have to do is fucking look to know what they are "selecting" for.
