https://booksquare.com/they-went-that-a-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=they-went-that-a-way Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://booksquare.com/they-went-that-a-way/#comment-83796 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:06:38 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/06/21/1417/#comment-83796 Shanna — my thought exactly. You don’t have to dumb down your review section, but you should appeal to the breadth of readers. It’s scary at first, but once readers trust your reviewers, then they’re going to branch out in other directions.

]]> https://booksquare.com/they-went-that-a-way/#comment-83795 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:49:20 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/06/21/1417/#comment-83795 If newspaper movie review sections operated like most newspaper book sections do, the only films to be reviewed would be documentaries and Oscar-bait movies. What would happen to the film industry if there were few places for audiences to learn about the rank-and-file “commercial” films that are the bread and butter of the industry? And how many people would read the newspaper movie section if it gave no mention of mysteries, thrillers, romantic comedies, action/adventures or science fiction films?

]]> https://booksquare.com/they-went-that-a-way/#comment-83691 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:46:06 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/06/21/1417/#comment-83691 “entire bookselling machine could use a good old-fashioned tweaking”. Ordinary bloggers seem to be doing their own tweaking.

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