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Originally Posted by Atunah
Add to that the sheer numbers of new SP authors, the number of books being pumped out. A while back it was put out at least 4 books a year, then it was every 2 months. Then the rallying cry was one must pump out a book every 30 days of fall of some cliff. Now I keep reading more and more pumping out of books every 2 weeks. More and more books written in shorter and shorter time.
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IMO good books take longer to write. One sees the occasional exception, but normal human-beings produce lower quality work if they have less time to do it.
IME, some readers are less fussy than others in their reading than others. I am very fussy. Horribly fussy. But other people I know will read long series of books that I wouldn't touch, and they enjoy them. That's great. I'm the loser here
But I have noticed that the books I really enjoy do tend to achieve general and outstanding success. So I do think my view on what makes a good back has some validity.
In any case, maybe the (IMO) inevitable lowering of quality of books when writers produce more has had an impact on sales. I mean, the stuff must be getting worse. And it has been stated here that indie authors are raising their prices for these books. Higher prices for lower quality books...There will come a point when readers won't buy.
Of course, I could be utterly wrong on this. The subject is such a morass, but interesting.