Fairly enough, writing is a career that have depended most of these modern times upon two factors: a) the ability to tell stories, and b) the access to a massive market, in order to sell them. The second factor deserves special consideration, because it doesn't really deal with the quality of the book produced, but mainly instead with advertising and networking. This allows books of inferior quality to be sold as hot cakes, for the quality missing in them is replaced with powerful marketing raids.
The "fairly enough" included in my first sentence intends to emnphasize that "anybody can be a writer". If you are able to write a couple of lines every now and then, why not offer your stories to the world? Fortunately, it is not that simple. Yes, people want to read whatever they catch in their hands, but they prefer to do it for free. Selling a book, even if it was only one copy (this makes sense to me, and probably to lots of new writers, while seems unthinkable to publishers) is like passing a quality test. Better if this assessment depends only on the judgment of your reader, than on the unbelievably hypnotical abilities of your marketing team.
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