/lit/ - Literature

I don't know about any official statistics but in my experience, by far the largest group of people who buy books are women, usually "white women from a certain background", "brooklyn ladies" as this guy accurately calls them.

Just like makeup or women's clothes, you can see that there is obviously a sensational and short term marketing appeal that appeals to women, and nearly every published major books in the past 10 years follows this trend. Fiction, nonfiction, history, politics. The women who claim to love reading, and appreciate "good books" and "good literature" are also the ones who always read the latest smear book on why a political candidate is so awful, or they read the harry potter books or 50 shades of gray. Then they say huckleberry finn is "harmful to oppressed and marginalized bipocs" and throw out every book made before 1950.

But I think a big reason, aside from the obviously powerful cultural force of "woke" stuff or whatever you call it, is just marketing. Publishers don't care about books, they care about one thing and one thing only, money. They will publish whatever sells and they will hop on whatever trend in book-hating if it gains them attention and credibility and eventually sells books