Why Publishing Sucks, and Why You, Dear Author, Should Consider It Anyway

Look. I’m supposed to be working on an MS this morning. But this Anthropic capitulation settlement has made me incandescently angry, and apparently I have to shriek for a while before my creativity will make friends with me again.

I don’t want to write about the Anthropic capitulation settlement itself. People are doing that all over. But one little factoid has emerged: as part of the settlement, you need to have your work registered with the US Copyright Office, and that has to have happened...