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Originally Posted by Redcard
To bring it fully, the answer is simple. If you're required to be rated to be in major book stores, and you are not rated, your work simply won't appear in major book stores. Like Walmart and what not, if your rating is too high, you might also not appear in book stores.
Every year, there are millions of movies made. Only a select few get put into the distribution process. There's an entire indie circuit that will never ever be shown in your standard theatre because of the proclivities of the MPRA.
Likewise, that is what could happen with books without too much work, and that is what concerns me.
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It's a valid point. However, in an age where consumers can buy products online without going to the major bookstores (or movie theatres), it is becoming less and less important whether works are seen in the movie houses and bookstores. Today you can buy direct-to-DVD movies, as well as download unrated material. You can also buy x-rated e-books without going through any screening process (depending on the origin of the seller). This is why ratings may be ultimately doomed to extinction... there is always someone, somewhere willing to sell the product to you, ratings or not.
Descriptors transcend ratings by removing the barrier at the sellers' end, and placing the barrier at your end.