Fact is better than Fiction

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There was an interesting article on Academic writers in Sunday Times, which dwelt with the state of affairs of Academic Writers vis-a-vis Fiction and Non-Fiction Writer. The piece once again established an oft-quoted phrase, "Fact is better than Fiction". The article says, that according to Nielsen India Book market report 2015 :


  • Academic books still dominate publishing, with 93% of Rs.260 bn market in India.
  • Academic books growing at a pace of 20% every year, which is twice the rate of growth of Fiction and Non-Fiction books. 
  • The bestsellers of Academic books are 100,000. Ten times as big as 10,000 bestsellers of Fiction and Non-Fiction books
So now the obvious question that comes to my mind, why are we so obscurely unaware of the writers of Academic books! Take a test. How many of us can you name any five Academic writers? I bet, very few, even though we can easily count half a dozen Fiction writers at a single breath. 

An academic book comes to our hand with a nameless-faceless author. On the other hand, the author of Fiction and Non-Fictions are the superstars of the publishing world. They are the alluring glamourous enchanter of our mind when it comes to the firmament of book world. 

This situation of obscurity of Academic authors is quite similar to the current scenario of Books per se, or for that matter any reading material, as compared to instant ocular gratification of Television.

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