Comment by socalgal2
5 hours ago
If non-fiction book market = self help, business help, advice. Good riddance?
I might be wrong but I feel like most of that stuff is the same as YouTube, TikTok. Random person with no qualifications realizes they can maybe make some money by writing about their own random opinions on how things are with no actual data, just feels.
Someone else mentioned history but AFAICT, at least in the YouTube realm, lots of "history" channels are people with alternative hot take ideas about history portrayed as history experts, because it's what gets views. I'm only guessing that same basic fact, controversial ideas get sales, means similar things happen with books. Especially with it being easier than ever to publish.
> Someone else mentioned history but AFAICT, at least in the YouTube realm, lots of "history" channels are people with alternative hot take ideas about history portrayed as history experts, because it's what gets views.
Even worse, it’s shallowly regurgitated ideas of other people’s prior works, with music and visuals and all.
Recently, on my formerly favourite new history channel [0], I noticed editing quirks (that would have never passed the bar if a human read it) and overly consistent vocalization… it's jumped the shark :(
[0] Fall of Civilisations https://youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations
> overly consistent vocalization
Is this...really an issue? I can't really blame people for automating their own voice.
Being able to predict cadence and pitch makes me want to fall asleep rather than listen.
Though it might be other people‘s whole reason to listen to long form podcasts in the first place