#but like. there are marginalised ya authors and editors being published by simon kids

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seeing people call for a boycott of all books published by certain publishers because they give book deals to racists and like. i do very much agree that the publishers are wrong to do that and need to be held accountable for doing so but i also know young marginalised authors being published by those same publishers (though not those same imprints) and with editors who are similarly marginalised and early-career and i can't help but feel that they're the only one who'll get fucked over by a tactic like that

i don't really know what the solution is because there has to be some way to hold corporations to account, but punishing debut and midlist authors by refusing to buy their books because they happened to be published by an imprint of one of the big five/four (a contract that may well have been signed before the publisher did anything reprehensible so even if they'd had other options, which many of them wouldn't have done, they wouldn't have known to take them) doesn't seem like it, somehow

#this is specifically in response to one person's tweet #about not buying any books from any imprints by s&s #but like. there are marginalised ya authors and editors being published by simon kids #who have fuck all to do with anything other branches of the company do #and who aren't benefitting from it #so ... sits badly with me to throw that baby out with the bathwater #after all people can't help it if the big five/four keep buying their imprints! #and yeah i have a personal stake in this bc i have friends with s&s deals and books already out too #but. bleh. idk. it feels like a lot of criticism / action against Publishing™ actually just fucks over authors #who were already being fucked over to start eith #*with #see also: piracy #screwing a writer's chances of future books bc you don't like their publisher isn't praxis #but also i don't know what a good solution is when money is the only language corporations speak #so i don't really have a solution to offer I'm just frustrated #publishing #personal