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Originally Posted by HarryT
Can you supply any supporting evidence for this claim? It seems a little improbable to me that this was the intended purpose of radio, and it's a claim I haven't previously encountered.
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Certainly not the intended purpose, but I can certainly believe a certain kind of person was saying "It's a sad day for books if radio is going to beam stories right into people's homes, for free, complete with sound effects. Why would any one get off their sofas to go buy a book....?"