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> There are at least 1,000 books written for every movie shot, even including material shot by amateurs with their phones > However, if you include self-publis
by Someone 3y ago
> There are at least 1,000 books written for every movie shot, even including material shot by amateurs with their phones
> However, if you include self-published authors you’re looking at close to 4 million new book titles published each year.
Combining those, you claim that less than 4,000 movies are shot each year, “even including material shot by amateurs with their phones”.
I can’t see how that can be true. Google tells me there are about 2 million weddings in the USA each year. From that, I think it’s a very, very safe bet that over 10,000 wedding videos are shot in the USA each year, with the real number probably over a million.
Add in corporate videos, wedding anniversaries, videos about sports teams winning championships, high-quality tube channels, etc, and I expect the total number to easily be over 4 million.
And that still puts the bar higher than “material shot by amateurs with their phones”
- gtirloni 3y agoWedding videos classify as "shooting a movie"?
- Someone 3y agoI think they do in the context of “even including material shot by amateurs with their phones” and comparing them to a market that includes self-published books. People often hire professionals to shoot them.
- bee_rider 3y agoIMO self-published books would be better compared to self-published movies (which isn’t what the original commenter said, but they were just too obviously wrong). So this would include things like YouTube videos, Twitch, etc, but not a private wedding video that doesn’t get published. I bet the videos still win.
- ztrww 3y agoa lot of those 500k “books” are about as similar to what we perceive as real books as wedding videos are to blockbuster movies
- peoplefromibiza 3y ago> And that still puts the bar higher than “material shot by amateurs with their phones” When I talk about “material shot by amateurs with their phones” I was referring to independent very low budget movies, the modern version of Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, not videos shot by people at parties, they do not classify as movies IMO. Should we also include in the book category people's personal diaries, internal companies documents, sportsbooks, wedding picture books, school yearbooks, etc.?