Books of artistic or academic value never made much cash, to my knowledge. Detective books - well, they can have Dirk drink a bud light and talk it up for half

Books of artistic or academic value never made much cash, to my knowledge. Detective books - well, they can have Dirk drink a bud light and talk it up for half a page for all I care (and many fictional detectives already do express brand preferences every five pages). So no great change. Perhaps they can start writing by hand, copying the world of painting and sculpture, in which people happily 'invest' in products which have nominal future cashflow potential other than future speculation.