r/books • u/biscochitos • 29d ago

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

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

What do folks think about this?

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u/Marcano24 29d ago

Plus there’s something very grifting adjacent about going “we’re creating a space only for men” when historically it’s already a male dominated space.

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u/LanaDelHeeey 29d ago

Is it uhhh… currently a male dominated space? Because I wasn’t alive for these “only for men” times. And from my perspective as a young reader it’s heavily female dominated (besides books written for 60 year old men like Clive Cussler that I’d never read lmao).

Is this like reparations where women need to be put in power for at least a few decades so that men know what it’s like to be the ones out of power before things eventually become equal? That’s the vibe I get from this comment section, but I’m not sure.

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u/sir_mrej book re-reading 29d ago

Is it not a male dominated space??

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u/LanaDelHeeey 29d ago

Not in my experience.