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Originally Posted by toddos
On the other hand, movies cost a heck of a lot more to create than books do, as you have to hire hundreds of people (beyond just actors), pay for studio/locations, rent/buy equipment, etc. Books just need a good author, time for him or her to write, and a small handful of editors, artists (for covers), and marketers (optional). So while a book may be a better entertainment dollar option, its cost also needs to be in line with what it takes to create it.
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Yeah and these days it doesn't pay to go to the theater to see a movie what with how admission and snack prices have gone up. Around where I live the Saturday matinee used to cost $4.50 (for the 1st showing of the day) but now its gone up to $6.00 just to get in the door and snacks are more expensive too so that for one person you are spending some good $ to just get in. Spend a few more $ and you would have the cost of buying a DVD of the movie when it comes out. Of course most of what profit the theaters make is in the snacks since the actual ticket costs are mostly used to cover the cost of renting the movie from the studios now days. With a book though the entertainment is individual in nature. Two people can't read the same copy of the same book at the same moment. I imagine part of the shakeup is due to the new media (ebooks I mean). Probably the same sort of thing happened when printing presses started replacing scribes and when books for the masses became possible due to things like the lineotype machine. No doubt the first printed books were pretty expensive as well being as they were new tech. at the time.