“Blurbs expose this ecosystem for what it really is: a nepotism-filled system that everyone endures for a chance of “making it” in an impossible industry for most.”

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a44948120/book-publishing-broken-blurbs-system/

The publishing industry has systematically turned the literary economy into a reputation economy and now it has no idea how to refocus.

As with other issues affecting mainstream publishing and literature, the only solution is a kind of strategic self destruction. Writers must remove their identities from the ecosystem and leave nothing but texts for the system to work with.