US certified organic farmlandUS self-published books per year
Self-published novels and certified-organic acreage, climbing together as if they were tended by the same diligent person. There is, statistically, an Iowa farmer with a finished memoir. Probably more than one. The land is not vouching for the prose.
US certified-organic farmland grew steadily as the National Organic Program matured and consumer demand for organic produce expanded retail incentives. Self-published titles climbed on a parallel curve through the rise of Amazon KDP and falling production costs. Both are decentralisation stories: small operators entering markets that used to be controlled by larger gatekeepers, whether that gatekeeper is a publishing house or a conventional commodity chain. The same decade lowered the barrier in two unrelated industries at roughly the same rate.
Decentralisation has consistent timing. When one gatekeeper falls, others tend to follow.
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