Winning awards isn't necessarily the same thing as winning over readers. One of the comments in the article was telling:
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I am sick and tired of the sneering masses telling writers to get jobs... writing is a full time job and it pays poorly nowadays because people are cheap and stupid and read whatever cheap crap is thrown at them and even then the author makes almost no money.
The constant march for the bottom line drives artists, unions, middle classes et al into the dirt... and yet somehow those very same people post here mocking writers - astounding.
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There are some (note I said some, not all or even most) writers who are highly contemptuous of readers. The reader is the customer. If the customer doesn't want your product, they aren't wrong for not buying it. The writer doesn't have to give the reader what they want, of course, but they legitimately can't blame readers for not reading it.
If your books aren't selling, it might be that the book isn't marketed right, or it isn't what readers want, or it just might not be very good. Believing that your book is great but those %$#^&^* readers don't want it won't help you a bit. No one is entitled to having their books sell. If you're books aren't selling enough, you need to either find a way to sell more books, cut your expenses or get a day job.