Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.
Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.