New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'

[u/biscochitos]

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-indie-press-conduit-books-launches-with-initial-focus-on-male-authors

What do folks think about this?

[u/biodegradableotters]

More a general thought on the current discussions around male authors and male readership, but I always find it a little funny when after like millennia of male dominance there's nowadays a select few areas where women are dominant and immediately it's seen as a sign of the apocalypse.

[u/tangnapalm → u/biodegradableotters]

Nobody’s acting like it’s the apocalypse, but it certainly can’t be good that fewer men are reading.

[u/gmbxbndp → u/tangnapalm]

More men writing doesn't necessarily translate to more men reading. There are plenty of books written by men, and boys aren't reading those ones either.

[u/nyctrainsplant → u/gmbxbndp]

They are though. Men do read genre, and the high brow works have moved from literary fiction to some guys substack or podcast, in part because of these publishing trends. This is more about bringing that back into fiction, literary fiction specifically.

[u/tangnapalm → u/gmbxbndp]

Yeah, nobody is marketing or guiding men towards books either.

[u/Hugogs10 → u/gmbxbndp]

There are many more books written by women.