CNN —

As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, with others at the ceremony also choosing to address banned books.

  • Clay_pidgin
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    78 months ago

    Some of the short fiction magazines that still exist have had to stop accepting submissions from unknown authors. The month chat gpt was released they saw a 10x increase in submissions.

      • Clay_pidgin
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        58 months ago

        That’s just bonkers. I’m sure the 99 cent shovelware ebook market is absolutely flooded.

        • @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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          28 months ago

          I just can’t believe there’s that many people who can read that many books in the world.

          Like, I can read a few books a year. Not 500 a day! If everybody wrote 500 books a day we would have like billions of books written per year.

          • @UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world
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            18 months ago

            They literally cost nothing to produce and the authors get pennies on the dollar, they didn’t have to sell very many copies to make money.