Afternoon, folks!

This week's #Newsletter touches on two recent news items in literary publishing: the "small fry" of the Prosecraft debacle (involving author data scraping), and the big news of Simon & Schuster's acquisition by private equity firm KKR.

We have the vocabulary to talk about data scraping. But where is our conversation around the much bigger issue of *asset* scraping, which plagues our industry and so many others?

#BetterWorldsTheory #Publishing #Finance https://mlclark.substack.com/p/the-deeper-financial-grift-behind