QUOTE ABOUT WRITERS:
"Right now I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art"
- Ursula K. Le Guin
"The name of our beautiful reward is not profit, it's name is freedom"
- Ursula K. Le Guin
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Et9Nf-rsALk&t=2m07s
She goes on in the middle to say she see's us accepting the hard conditions set by others, even though we do most of the work writing it and let us gett told what to sell and what to write.
BOOK AS A COMMODITY?
Books also cross the boundaries into just being a commodity also. People who don't read but have a library might have some element of that having things 'on show' but not really believing it.