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amplexadversary · 26 days ago

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I wonder if a really dedicated collection of book nerds could get those Elaine Duillo style cover illustrations a foothold in the publishing industry again. There are certainly enough artists who can achieve that level of intricacy that a really really popular Trend might be able to do it.

Perhaps any of those bookbinding hobbyists might want to try to go pro and pair up with an artist to refurbish something well enough to hook the really rich art snobs into buying unique, custom pieces for a fuckton of money.

#ignore Morg #It would need to be a book that's extremely popular but too new to really be getting special collector's editions #someone *really* fast might be able to pull it off with a copy of Wicked #I don't know the exact legal situation for selling refurbished books but I think at most you'd need a deal with a used bookseller to be saf #Donating some custom pieces to libraries might garner interest as well #I know that there's usually going to be a subset of hobbyists that at least want to try going professional #and I think this would be both really funny and really good for the economy if it worked and became a Thing #because there's nothing the corpos love more than a trend #and pulling any of them away from the race to the bottom is a very good thing #if nothing else putting artists in a more favorable position will get circulation up and that's the thing that's really good #because the same money is then benefiting many more people #Like. I am a biologist not an economist but I know enough about the subject to understand #that the people cooking the metaphorical pizza are doing a bad job.#It tastes wrong. And different methods are necessary to make a better one.#social issues #kind of #It's clear that social progress going forward is likely going to rely on convincing people who know fuckall about politics #with arguments about the economy. which would likely be best accomplished by pushing circulation HARD as a metric #and using the income of artists as a measure of economic health. Because the fuckalls are only going to listen to the mystical *economyyyyy #Like a fucking oracle or something #So pushing circulation as an easy-to-understand concept and doing it harder than the conservatives do the ''trickle down'' shtick #is probably the best move in general #Hell the argument even flows well with surface logic -#- do you just want a trickle getting through or do you want the whole system circulating? Make it a metaphor about meemaw's heart #I am fucking rambling in the tags but as bad as I am at actually talking to people I am pretty good at picking approaches through writing #So if anyone more persuasive than me wants to start working that angle I would be THRILLED

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