@Insider2000:
That's not true. Nowadays, the popular thing is to write young adult novels. Frequently, these stories of been having love triangles, romantic drama, and smutty self-insert female leads. And even with books that don't follow the exact formula, some still incorporate small pieces of the trend to try and appeal to new readers. Even publishers keep an eye open for such potential books, for they are what sell nowadays.
Yes, there will always be works that don't follow the trend, but the trend is generally what is popular. But I think the trend is slowly dying.
It would be nice if everything didn't follow such trends, but they do.
It does happen a lot less with books, though, because, for one, the so-called book industry (if we really want to call it that, it doesn't really exist in the same sense as the games industry does) is so much bigger and more diverse than the gamer community is as a result of there being thousands of times more material for the book hobbyists to find enjoyment in than there currently is for gamers, so the trends never gather as much attention and momentum when there are more people with varied tastes reading whatever they happen to like and the relative numbers of people who follow the trends and those who don't are much smaller.
And secondly, the book scene is much more dependent on single personalities as opposed to massive publishers because a book is an individual's body of work and theoretically anyone can be a successful author, so there's always going to be more variety. Gaming is slowly starting to get to the point where this kind of variety is being created by in increasing number of smaller indie developers, but it's still going to take at least a decade or two before the industry and the big publishing houses stop having such a huge control over the overall fluctuations of the scene.
But yes, otherwise your point stands.