It’s not that people aren’t reading, it’s that people aren’t reading woke crap. Go to any bookstore and tell me what you find. It’s all DEI. The entire progressive culture is in freefall collapse.
Yeah, you’re right.
The big chain bookstores highlight all the books with a leftist tilt.
They wonder why they’ve lost so many customers.
People (okay, it's mostly women) are reading crap, much of it woke.
There's a surprisingly large market for self-published romance & erotica Kindle books.
Fifty Shades of Grey is the prime example, but even before that, many female authors were pumping out their semi-literate ebooks to a large number of waiting fans.
Romance Authors Thrive in the Self-Publishing Era.
Self-Published Romance Novels Dominate The Book Market.
A Smashwords ebook survey showed how self-published romance ebooks dominated the ebook market.
In short, the romance genre accounted for a staggering 87% of the top 100 bestsellers on Smashwords and their aggregators.
Should I repeat that number? Eighty-seven percent! The number must make all romance authors smile.
While it is impossible to compare this data with sales of self-published romance novels on Amazon Kindle, one could logically assume that romance also dominates Kindle Unlimited and Kindle ebook sales.
75-80% of all books now are for women is the problem.
I remember growing up and men’s books were more dominate. You had all kinds of action series. Now it all women all the time.