I (obviously) think that books are really important, and that we should be doing everything we can to protect the workers in the publishing industry during this fraught time. I also think that books are not medical supplies

I find the "essential" framing to be off right now, I'm sorry. We can have the needed conversations and do the needed things without appropriating a concept we are otherwise applying to core aspects of a pandemic response

This is good https://twitter.com/byers90/status/1252225763761414146?s=20

This is also good https://twitter.com/mka_ultra/status/1252262806801600514?s=20

Honestly it feels like another of the seemingly countless symptoms of the publishing industry having a very hard time understanding itself in a broader political context.

There are a whole lot of things I'd like publishing to have done before this pandemic, during it now, and immediately afterward, with regard to its workers and decisions, if it would like to start in the "essential" conversation as something more than a marketing tool

I love publishing, as frustrating as it is, as frequent a punch line as it can be as an industry. I've oriented my whole life around working in publishing and happily so. I just want better perspective and analysis so that people can actually succeed in it.