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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
And there's nothing wrong with that as a business model. But then it also does help to explain why those authors aren't winning awards for their writing. (Cashing in on a genre with quickly churned out formulaic stories rather than doing anything to advance that genre.)
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Kind of depends if you think that awards should go to stories that readers like, or stories that critics like. One sees the same dynamic is a lot of areas of entertainment. Heinlien famously said that he competed for his readers' beer money. A lot of very famous authors valued popularity over appealing to critics.