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I love essay writing, I like to combine photos with my essays and want to write and sell my own created essays. Only I don't know if people really buy them.

1./ Is there an interest in essays, do you think people would buy them?

2./ If yes why do people buy essays verses a book?

I understood the question to mean essays as in essays for magazines or collections of essays, not a paper for a course. If I misunderstood, ignore my answer.

Essays are still very much used in periodicals and you can even find a publisher for a collection of essays, though more often than not you would need to have a number already published in periodicals to help generate the interest. If you have a particular take on life you can "suddenly" burst onto the national scene. For instance, Thomas Lynch's book from the late 90s, The Undertaking, is a collection of essays on life and death from the perspective of an undertaker. Like any effective written work, a creative style has to be employed. Some can write prose that flows as well as any poetry, while others may be less poetic but always seems to express a view with an interesting twist.

The addition of photographs to create a photessay is a good way to help. I once did one project for 2 classes in college, combining photographs from my photography class with theory and opinion from a sociology course to create a photoessay on body art. That particular essay was more expository but also tried to find an interesting way to make the points I wanted to make beyond simply making a statement and citing an example. In that case the photos were directly tied to the text. In more creative forms of photoessays, the photographs are often more subtly attached to the text, setting mood and feel moreso than illustrating a point.

So yes, essays are still bought and quite often in book form. At any given moment one of the books I am reading is usually a book of essays or short fiction, for times when I want short, focused reading.