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Or if it’s books.
by kasey_junk 8y ago
Or if it’s books.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoI doubt that print would be immune from such advertising. Particularly kids books that often contain pictures.
- emodendroket 8y agoPrint takes fewer people and less money to produce than a cartoon
- boomboomsubban 8y agoThe incentive to make as much money as possible is still there. These ideas have been common in comic books for a century.
- emodendroket 8y agoI think the point is that a principled author can easily choose to write a different book.
- bunderbunder 8y agoIt definitely happens, and there are a lot of really bad children's books whose primary purpose is to fit into merchandising empires out there. But the ratio of quality work to crap is much higher in children's books than in other media. Especially if you stick to children's books that aren't attached to toys or other media. Compare, for example, anything Disney, where the books are often just a long series of nonsequiturs with barely any narrative structure, let alone emotional depth, to anything by Philip Stead.