Perhaps, but women don't seem to stop reading altogether, they simply shift genres, and those genres eventually begin to blend together, until they eventually end up carting pieces of each other around.
The problem with market-based correction is that it's not swift. You have to wait for an impetus to build up that creates an entirely separate market structure, and then for the weight of those two to force them to sag into each other. It can take years when it's short; for the written word it could take decades, and possibly even generations. The market tends to work - just not when it's convenient for it to ever do so.
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Date: 2009-06-05 06:55 pm (UTC)The problem with market-based correction is that it's not swift. You have to wait for an impetus to build up that creates an entirely separate market structure, and then for the weight of those two to force them to sag into each other. It can take years when it's short; for the written word it could take decades, and possibly even generations. The market tends to work - just not when it's convenient for it to ever do so.