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Originally Posted by ekbell
Books are not the only media which has been affected by easy access to alternative material. Decades ago I remember folks bemoaning the loss of a common culture as people were no longer listening to the exact same things, watching the exact same shows and reading the exact same books.
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And I remember the big to do about home video recorders when they became more popular in the late 70's early 80's. The movie studios fought to make it against the law to ever record anything off of TV. In the end though they woke up to the marketing bonanza that the home video systems were and started to sell their movies on cassettes. It was slow at first. I remember the 1st Batman movie (with Michael Keaton) took a year to come out on VHS. Now often new movies can come out on DVD before they finish making the rounds of the local movie theaters. Hollywood learned to embrace the new media as a new way to make a profit. Book publishers have yet to do the same alas.