This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations
sometimes journaling is peaceful and sometimes journaling is me writing a sentence that activates the perseveration sleeper agent in my brain and losing several minutes to staring at the wall solving hypothetical problems