How do literature become a profitable business?

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During my daily follow-up of books and literature, I noticed that hardly a day goes by when someone announces the publication of a new book or invites to attend the signature of his book, or depicts some quotations with a cup of coffee. Who bought you my book ?! And then download it on the Internet and the availability of the sites of communication, if you entered on Facebook and his grandmother talking about his book, and if you entered on the Internet and found the publication of the cover of his book, and if I entered Twitter found a quote from his book! As if he did not write in this world anyone else, as if in this book exceeded the knowledge of Fahrahi and Ibn Khaldun!

In 106 BC, Cicero said: "It is a difficult time that everyone is making books!" What should I say today ?! This influx of new book releases, or in the sense of the most correct novels - since most of what is published are novels - makes me ask with a little bit of indignation and concern. Has literature become a profitable trade to the extent that people compose books in this insane way ?! But did people finish reading all the books that were published over time to write new books to read them later?

In recent times, the Arab media has become a society that is not a reader, as it is supposed to be. A good percentage of them have mastered writing as a way to profit and live, and this has made literature become empty, useless and nothing new. "Poetry creates myth, and prose draws a picture," says John Paul Sartre. "In this regard, we have the right to ask where is the myth created by the modern poets in their poems? And where is the picture that these writers draw in prose?

After this farce that did not provide anything new to the literature has not solved one problem of the hills of problems stacked in the Arab world I almost certainly that the proportion of books published in one year exceeds the proportion of books read by the Arab individual! The work of writing has become a thousand times easier for many people to do reading, as the second - in their eyes - need to focus and examine and tapped to harvest the fruits of interest, while the first need only a few paper and some imagination, and then begin paving words that are thrown on our heads on A body of books whose profits are estimated at tens of thousands.

It is mainly due to this farce to publishing houses and printing presses. It is often profitable and exploits the naiveté of the authors. They buy what they write to publish and dispose of it as they wish. This is where the disaster begins. Institutions like this are purely profitable. The book contains linguistic, grammatical, or typographical errors. Then there is nothing wrong with it, and a thousand is not enough if this book does not present a new literature or language, how many of the Hadith steals hours of our time without a little benefit!

This is another matter that is not overlooked by any of the current literature status is the tolerance of cultural censorship and lack of it in some cases, as many books that invade the libraries do not live up to be called literature and do not deserve the payment of money! This is something else that can not be overlooked. Some of these "literature" or published books have become pornographic and sometimes attacked religion. How can cultural institutions silence and even accept this "literary" masquerade? The value of the literature provided lies in the addition of the book and the change it makes in us, that is, it lies in the quality, not the quantity, nor the amount invested in it. When literature has an effect on us or us, it deserves to be called literature and as a commodity traded by publishing houses. And printing presses.