Hate almost every point made here. Firstly, strongly disagree with the main premise that the industry is facing a watershed moment. Let’s call it change, disruption of publishing status quo, a challenge to gatekeeping, and accountability instead. https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/1387322442876551170

Right. We’d like anyone to be able to tell anyone’s story = more white authors in reality. A white perspective on others’ Iived experiences, sanitised and marketed by white people aimed at white readers.

‘Younger refuseniks’ says it all. Grandad’s a bit racist, but it’s a generational thing, so we leave him to it. Absolutely refuse to accept this issue has a clean line between young people and older people.

This, from David Shelley of Hachette, is so embarrassing. You have views because of algorithms, people. You been siloed.

To summarise - we don't want things to change, it's worked perfectly well for 00s of years, so why is it a problem now?

Also, we have a lot of programs to make our workforce and our author numbers more diverse & reflect society.

But, we prefer it if they don't have views too.

If we want any evidence of how disingenuous this is, did publishers address the lack of diverse characters, authors, workforce because they realised it needed to change or did they get shamed into doing so by activism from @nikeshshukla @helloiammariam @ProfSunnySingh & others?

Also, and then I'll shut up, the only people who are ever defended in these pieces are white women. From an industry of .... white women.

Anyway, the fight goes on. The sooner some people realise that that involves conceding space and money to others, the better.