richardmurray

AALBC built a survey

https://aalbc.com/pdf/Authors-Guild-AALBC-US-Published-Black-Author-Income-Study-12072023.pdf

My thoughts

The percentage of less black male authors in all black authors compared to a greater percentage of non black male authors among non black authors is interesting to me in that I think black women as book buyers or book writers is a stronger force but the contrast to the non black explains the disconnect. THe non black audience is larger in the usa than the black so having the black book buying or book writing be led by females means the black populace will trend a different gender way.

The tragedy of the black dos populace is that, it had its own set of languages or literary possibilites at the end of the war between the states but black DOS-ers themselves, pushed a white language/literary molding in the black populace so hard, black people turned their back on their own languages + literary possibilities. So the white asian + white latin american communities multilingual existence , allowed by fellow whites, side their growing population quantities gives them a greater and specific reach financially. The native american will always suffer as they are by default the losers as long as the usa exist.

The reality is, the black populace ever since the end of the war between the states has been a community based on merit. What does that mean? The black populace in the usa didn't earn a form of  freedom through violence, it was handed a form of freedom after its masters battled themselves. So, the black populace found itself with a freedom absent opportunity. This meant what, if nonviolence is to be embraced? This meant getting the former masters , now opportunity holders to value you through merit is the simplest straight forward strategy. And for a extreme minority of blacks it has worked since the end of the war between the states because their are aways situations where merit has value. Entertaining others requires skills that can only be proven through merit. Being athletic requires skills that can only be proven through merit. But, the problem was and is, most things don't require merit. So for example, even though many blacks have graduated with engineering degrees since the end of the war between the states, research and engineering don't have a merit based system cause the truth is, most research or engineering doesn't have a way to merit through to financial return. For example, if you are a boxer, you can't remain a champion absent proving it in the ring, their is no work around. But you can be a researcher or engineer for decades and never yield a grand monetary value.  To restate, being an engineer or researcher doesn't have a way to rank one against another honestly. And thus, it isn't a merited job. The only way engineering or researching can show merited ranks is if people research or engineer on their own, not as paid employees. remember bill gates plus steve jobs weren't the engineers who made the initial softwares that led to their riches, it was others whose names I can't remember as easily. So having a merit based community leads to less power by default, by default. But that is the tradeoff to a nonviolent stance that has allowed the usa to grow into the multiracial body it has currently.And the lack of merited labor extends to most jobs. Ceo's of firms/presidents of firms/financial officers of firms/auto workers/calminers/ most jobs don't have a way to demand merit as a hired entity. Why should one or another be a model for vogue? one should one or another be a newspaper reporter ? Most jobs can be filled by a various set of people who want them absent any way to say one is better than another outside of meritless biases like phenotype/gender/school you graduated from/language or most other. So this explains the financial impotency of blacks in the usa from the war between the states to today. 

Something told me I should had known nonfiction was the biggest publishing category by blacks. it makes sense in the usa. black fiction is very old but historically it has only had financial wings in the black populace while black nonfiction has financial wings in the non black community. The good news for me, is this proves my idea correct for a project i want to have in process this year.

The heirtage of whites wanting to adopt/embrace/take native american or black culture in the usa is a centuries old tradition and thus the book buying. Whites in the usa historically consider asian or latin american culture a dangerous other, not to be embraced.

Advertiisng is the key but white authors have the money for more adveritisng time

the pdf is from the following forum post