The Publishing Business sucks. What's left. Amazon has totally taken over and eBooks are in forever. Unless you're a best-selling author you are basically fucked hard until your bowels are bathed deep in blood. A beginning author who wants to write literature has little chance unless she's an unbelievable talent -- and even then the chances are not great. You're more likely to get free pancakes at IHOP served on gold plates by Dr. Seuss characters than get more than 5,000 people to buy your first book. So what is there to do?
Some authors just work their regular day jobs (if they even have them) and then publish for the pleasure of a few close friends, family, and a small network of writers they know.
There are the academic journals, but they don't get you too far either.
