Well, I completely agree. My mom even agrees and she reads them. They're all more or less the same story with a few names changed out, and that's it. No real character development or anything. Just boy meets girl, they fall in love, *boom*, book done. That's definitely a fine example of hack fiction done with only profit in mind. I put months of thought into every book I write, and end up doing so many blasted edits to get everything right that I'm pretty much sick of the story by the time I'm done. But I refuse to send out any of my books that are less than 100%.
Too bad there's a slice of the author population who doesn't see it that way.
I love what I do, and I know there are plenty of others here too who love what they're doing, as far as authoring and writing books. And yet there's jokers out there who make us look bad by producing garbage and selling it for a mint.