Yes, you are right. In publushing, you trade sovereignty for reach. The bigger you want to grow, the more centralized systems you need.

Hopefully, we will see ecosystems like nostr thrive and develop. Audience growth and monetization might look different there.

However, with books taking a colossal effort to bring to market, it's likely authors will still benefit from companies and systems to help with discoverability.

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UnPhiltered Chaper 9 - Becoming Hemingway

That sounds good, but I wonder how you'd prevent the collective from morphing over time into just the old publishing companies, especially as they become bigger, more mainstream, more commercially driven, etc.
