: Re: How much value do publishers and editors place on informative/educational content in fiction stories? I have heard people say that ‘good stories are educational as well as entertaining’. But

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All experienced events change the experiencer.
Reading a book is an experience.
All books change their readers.
Good books have a greater impact on readers.

Here's a definition of education from Wikipedia:

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition
of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods
include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed
research.

There isn't a book in existence that does not change its reader in some way, because every experience experienced incrementally alters some aspect of the experiencer.

Editors and publishers are, in the main, smart people. They know the power of books to change (educate) people and so will seek out those that they judge will have a greater impact on their readers. Those are the kinds of books that will be memorable and will cause the reader to recommend them to others.

I'm not necessarily talking about the minutia of the running of a farm here. The education is probably more likely to involve something about the human condition of people on farms or the deeper aspects of the role of farms in the world. But still - that's education.

Good luck with your writing.

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