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June 30, 2003
Kids these days...
...have short attention spans thanks to all that television and all those video games they have been brain-washed into thinking of as entertainment when they are not too busy stealing music from the internet. This explains the crushing failure of the Hulk movie next to the smashing success of a "Dickensian"-length blockbuster novel (via Slashdot):
In a culture where little registers until it's measured in dollars, just do the math. Figure an average price of $20 a "Harry" (allowing for widely varying discounts on the $29.99 list price), and you have a one-day gross, as Variety would say, of $100 million. That's more money than the competing Hollywood fantasy, "The Hulk," brought in for its entire opening weekend ($62 million), and, assuming a very conservative average of two readers per book, a larger audience as well.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 30, 2003 09:46 AM
