The problem is how expensive these products (especially the specific cases of books, AAA games and movies) are to produce, and monopolies on distribution. Book

The problem is how expensive these products (especially the specific cases of books, AAA games and movies) are to produce, and monopolies on distribution. Books aren't expensive to publish like theatrically released movies and AAA games. According to the 2019 Publishers Weekly ranking of global publishers, Penguin Random House issues 15,000 titles a year with revenues of 3434 million Euros (2018). That puts cost-per-title well under $0.25 million whereas AAA games start at tens of millions per title. I don't know if ROI is similar but initial cost to bring a new work to market is much lower for a book. https://www.publishersweekly.com/binary-data/Global502019.pdf https://www.publishersweekly.com/binary-data/Global502019.pd...