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Originally Posted by Shaggy
How is this different with commercial writing? You're saying that the majority of commercial books are worth reading?
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Potentially. But it depends on who's doing the deciding what "worth reading" means.
People have to make a living somehow, if they can't make a living writing, they will do something else and there will be fewer potentially good writers writing.
The commercial book system is driven by the bottom line -- at every step they are evaluating as best they can whether there will be a market for the book. If they don't they will go out of business. A bit like evolution but with different pressures at work.
The thing is, if there is no money to be made from writing, then there's not a huge incentive in learning to do it well. (not there there is no incentive -- there are certainly other potential reasons than money to write).