We are dying. (We Writers)
We are crumbling to the dust of mediocrity.
I am not saying that, statistics yell.
Overall book market ~US$5-6bn (2025), growing 3-5% CAGR, driven by education (>50% share) & commercial fiction; not pure literature.
Only 20 percent of our youth read for pleasure.
on the other hand there are 500 million gammers across the world. They play, they watch tv, they watch p#rn. They watch only fans. They watch everything, ever shitty things that ever existed in the world.