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Originally Posted by basschick
some books now considered classics and literature weren't considered to be either when they were popular. if someone had decided that they were "only" popular reading and had kept them from being sold, we wouldn't now be able to read them and point out how vastly superior they are to the hoi polloi of current popular novels.
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Yes, and the bestsellers financed taking more risks which gave us a lot of superior novels.
But that article did not say that popular was bad. It made that point that badly written books that still sell a lot is bad.
And historically I do not know if we really had actual popular books that sold a lot and was badly written. They seem to have become much more common the last 30 years and very much more common the last 5-10 years.