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Originally Posted by ApK
The ability of some authors to publish their grocery list and have it be a best seller.
(That was something Stephen King said about himself, actually.)
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Ah, I see. I seem to recall him saying something like that now that you mention it. It makes sense that some authors might be jealous of other bestselling authors. I was just trying to figure out how a
reader who didn't care for the "like clockwork" output "churned out" by a lot of the perennial bestselling authors might be considered jealous of them.
But mostly I was trying to comment on the common mistake that those who vocally oppose the notion that books (especially fiction read for entertainment) actually ARE fairly fungible tend to make: namely that they think it means settling for reading lesser quality books written by "generic" authors, or even that it (fungibility) means any genre could conceivably be interchanged with another.