Competition from smartphones and readers sticking to well-known writers means novelists are suffering. We must find ways better ways to enable themFinally it’s official: literary fiction is in crisis,and writers across the land are burning the midnight oil in their garrets, teaching or slogging absent in unrelated jobs to keep the fire ablaze in the grate. This Dickensian picture was revealed by Arts Council England today in a report that suggests it may bear to shift its funding priorities in order to save a population whose economic and cultural solvency has been chipped absent over the years.
So why has it come to this, or how much does it really matter? The first thing to be clear approximately is that people are not necessarily reading less – print sales of books across fiction,nonfiction and children’s titles rose nearly 9% in the UK final year, while on Tuesday market analysts Nielsen BookScan will reveal that sales over the all-important Christmas period bear risen 20% since 2013.
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Source: guardian.co.uk