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With AI floods the editors and reviewers do become more important. But like music labels, one of the biggest exploiters of art and talent, the technical aspects of media delivery and production aren't held by labels or publishing houses.

They are just middlemen.

Re: No one buys books

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Post by vundercind » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:40 PM UTC

matwood wrote: post #149

vundercind wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I gotta admit: I rarely make time for any recent fiction. Too busy catching up on the last 5,000 years. I don’t expect that to change before I die. Film has a similar problem—there are plausibly low-thousands existing films worth my time, a whole lot of them 30+ years old. I could never watch a film made after 2000 and not run out of good entertainment in my lifetime. They’re damn lucky the Mouse got copyright extend…

And if you add in TV shows, there's more great content out there than I'll ever have time to watch.

Video games, too. I live through the 90s yet my backlog includes thousands of hours of reputedly-amazing games from that decade that I didn’t get to at the time.