On publishers that do not pay advances

Shame on you. I suppose AI will fill your publishing needs soon enough.

Who needs creative people anyway - AI will do it all and better and cheaper, well not cheaper because tax payers fund its development but who is counting the money we give to corporate welfare?

Publishing houses need to be broken up like all corporations.

Writers need to be treated as professionals not as amateurs. In our desperate desire to get published too many writers work for free - that is amateurism and will only make things worse.

Writers do NOT give your work away for free even if the royalties seem good. Without an advance the publisher does not have to go out of its way to market your work fully. The greater the advance the better the marketing. There was a time when authors did not also have to market their work. Publishers did that.

Nowadays you must have a platform or have some kind of helping hand… the work rarely gets you a deal. Of course there are exceptions but still…

People in publishing tend to be underpaid and overworked - we see this often nowadays with misspellings etc and rushed publications. I blame the corporations for this in their short-term thinking and desire to make more money instead of sharing the wealth… sounds familiar? Yes, corporate greed is ruining pretty much everything that is decent.

Writers work too hard to be treated like amateurs… eventually you will only sell AI generated books - oh wait, that’s already happening…