I think readers of the most formulaic genre work (romance, mystery, thriller, sword & sorcery, any fan fic) buy more because they read more, and read more because they read
differently. The favored genre or genres are a kind of constant in their lives, just like when someone listens to the same kind of music all the time, or like drinking tea or smoking cigarettes. Being the same thing over and over is a large part of the pleasure they take in it, which can be hard for people who read for other reasons to accept.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
What that shows to me is that the "proper" publishers have had it wrong all these years when they decided what people wanted to read. If they want to survive long term it isn't just their prices they need to sort out. They need to start encouraging all those trash writers they turned their noses up at in the past to start sending them manuscripts again instead of selling themselves direct to readers.
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Are you writing an alternate history novel? Genre has always been the only reliably salable commodity in publishing.