Source: Persuasion
by Melanie Jennings & Elizabeth Kaye Cook
“In December, we wrote an essay about how small presses still fight the good fight for risky literary fiction, even as the conglomerated Big Five publishers abandon it. In a time when companies like Meta steal books to build generative AI, then claim that individual books ‘are no different from noise’ in terms of their contribution to AI, defending wild fiction matters more than ever. Many readers reached out to us: after too-often plunking down $30 for a well-reviewed but ultimately disappointing new release, they were clamoring for better options. If small and independent presses offered fresher, more challenging books, how could they find and read them? It’s a more difficult question to answer than you might expect.” (05/06/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-its-so-hard-to-find-small-press