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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
This sounds like a chicken or the egg argument. It looks like you are saying that an author can't write 3-4 books per year unless there is enough of a following, but that would mean that the author started with a lower output.
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I'm confused as to what your point is. The question isn't how fast books can be written, but how fast
good books can be written, or alternatively what effect writing books quickly has on quality.
If an author writes a number of good books, they will build up a readership, and also be in more demand with their publishers.
Both groups will push for books to be released more quickly.
Both groups will be more tolerant of lower quality books than they would be from a new author.
Both author and publisher will probably make more money publishing a larger number of lower quality books than a smaller number if higher quality books.
An author probably can't get a
contract for 3-4 books a year without having first more slowly built up their readership, but they can write at whatever pace they want.