Post by account_disabled on Dec 7, 2023 8:21:11 GMT
This post was inspired by a comment on my article on the path to writing . I wanted to delve deeper into the topic because I agree with what has been written and I think it is worth discussing. So let's talk about publishing and the quality of published novels. We're talking about never-ending story lines that ride the success of others. Let's talk about imitations. Of little originality. What the reader takes away The publications of recent years have demonstrated several times that the publishing market has focused on the presumed tastes of the public. Why presumed? Because readers loved a novel, which was therefore successful, and publishing thought of re-proposing it.
It is not the same novel, obviously, it has changed title, author, perhaps story, but not too much, it has changed publisher, but the same book-product has been offered to readers again. I even read Phone Number Data announcements from publishing houses looking for novels in specific genres. The result is a banal homologation. The book becomes a sheep and is introduced into the flock that belongs to it. The publisher-shepherd is very careful that no sheep escapes, he frames the writer - who in many cases frames himself - and asks him for more sheep.
Is this really what the reader perceives? Does the reader really want to read the same story? Reader maturity I think it's a vicious circle: the publisher proposes the same novel because he knows – thinks he knows – that the reader wants it; the reader reads the same novel because he knows – he thinks he knows – that he will feel the same emotions as the successful novel he read before. The result is an immature reader who, instead of searching for good literature and new sensations, becomes stuck on old things, on what has already been read.
It is not the same novel, obviously, it has changed title, author, perhaps story, but not too much, it has changed publisher, but the same book-product has been offered to readers again. I even read Phone Number Data announcements from publishing houses looking for novels in specific genres. The result is a banal homologation. The book becomes a sheep and is introduced into the flock that belongs to it. The publisher-shepherd is very careful that no sheep escapes, he frames the writer - who in many cases frames himself - and asks him for more sheep.
Is this really what the reader perceives? Does the reader really want to read the same story? Reader maturity I think it's a vicious circle: the publisher proposes the same novel because he knows – thinks he knows – that the reader wants it; the reader reads the same novel because he knows – he thinks he knows – that he will feel the same emotions as the successful novel he read before. The result is an immature reader who, instead of searching for good literature and new sensations, becomes stuck on old things, on what has already been read.