Sentences with phrase «popular potboilers»

My reaction to reading this news (in the Guardian newspaper) is that book readers in general remain prolific but nowadays content themselves with grubby bestsellers or popular potboilers marketed by the global giants.

A sample: «Book publishers are financially rewarded today for publishing (a) cookbooks (b) cat books (c) how - to books (d) popular potboilers (e) critical editions of Immanuel Kant's early writings.