I’m sorry, I can’t agree with you on those points at all. I write because I love reading and writing. I write stories that I want people to enjoy and I do think of the reader. On your points though many great authors would never have got published. I just finished reading “Little Dorrit” a Charles Dickens classic. The writing is complicated, difficult to comprehend at times without going back over it a few times and is full of complicated words that I constantly check in the dictionary facility on my Kindle. I know that the physical dictionaries on my bookshelf would quite possibly not all go back far enough for some of the archaic words, but I get pleasure from learning the meanings. In “Earthly Powers” by Anthony Burgess, a wonderful book, the second line contained the word “catamite” which I had to look up immediately as it was a key part of the characterisation. Now that to me is the mark of an excellent book.

The problem is that we are expected to write for catching the reader’s interest in web content and that is ok to drag non-readers to at least read a few lines in their miserable lives but not to encourage people to read more. Surely we must encourage people to enjoy the pleasure of a great novel, pure fiction or real dramas, in-depth and not only appeal to those with no time on their hands, or those with only a short concentration span.