About this episode

The episode discusses the failures of Unbound/Boundless in paying authors and critiques the publishing industry's growth-at-all-costs mentality.

In light of the recent revelations about Unbound/Boundless’s failure to pay their debts to their authors, we talked about what went wrong, what flawed publishing impulse these mistakes come from, and the importance of publishing companies not pursuing growth at all costs. We also yell a little bit about AI. Come unpack the horrors with us!

People in this episode

Hosts: Erik Hane, Laura Zats

Topics covered

• publishing
• debt
• AI
• growth
• industry flaws

Keywords

• Unbound
• Boundless
• publishing
• debt
• AI
• growth
• authors

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Unbound, Boundless

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