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There is also the potential problem of saturation I think. I mean in the past if an author wrote too many books within a given amount of time the publisher's would have him/her use a pen name to avoid things looking too cluttered with one author's work. Also I think that some readers might get the impression that the writing must be of low quality if a given author has 10 books coming out around the same time just as an example. I'd guess that there might be a chance of the work seeming to be based on a formula as well if an author writes too many too quickly. For example a romance writer might follow the boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again structure with characters that follow similar types too often and thereby crank out a good number of books in a quick space of time, but then if you read one you've pretty much read them all since they all follow the same pattern. Part of what takes so long to write a book I think is that sense of originality that a book should have. In a romance we know the guy will get the girl (or not if it's a tragedy) but it's the journey from the start of the story to the finish that a reader wants to experience.
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