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Originally Posted by murraypaul
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.
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Why would this be the more likely scenario? I would think that it is more likely that an author's first book would be of a lower quality, so if you are right and a slower writing speed is necessary you would have more authors starting at a lower quality, then slowing their writing speed and gaining quality than authors starting with high quality starting to write faster and losing quality.
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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Nah, it is more likely that the unknown author is more willing to write at a slower pace to produce better work, since one good book will get them more attention than 4 books that are just ok. Once they're popular, it is tempting for an author to increase output, often at the sake of quality, because it means more books get sold, and thus more money in their pocket.
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According to this logic an author's first book would be the best book they ever write.