In the pop-culture version of rock-paper-scissors, movies and music will beat books every time in terms of the sheer audience numbers.
By
Jim Ley
on March 17, 2007
March 19,2007 issue of Newsweek Page 60 Our Books, Ourselves
by Malcom Jones
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...which is why I am going to go into book marketing/publicity...to attempt to at least level out the playing field a little bit.
true but doesn't TV eat music movies?