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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Define 'better'. IMO the person writing for money is more likely to write the better book-because they're the ones who will pay attention to their customers. The person 'writing for literature' is more likely to pay attention only to their own opinion of what's 'best'.
I, obviously, define 'better' as 'more popular' rather than as 'satisfying esoteric critics'.
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But if you try to adapt to the customers you usually will not continue to sell a lot of books. If it was predictable what would sell only books that sold a lot would be published.