Reading Lists. Monetization Super Panel: John Chow Ad-Free Blog But Still Make Money! — BlogWorld Expo Blog. Young Adult Genre. Writers. Why Television Is Trouncing Film at Major Media Companies. Movies are fast becoming the ugly stepchild for major media companies, while television continues to be the cash cow that drives profits. That's the message that emerges from an analysis conducted by TheWrap of the annual reports of five major media companies in 2011. And it's a dramatic change from the way things used to be, when movies were the straw that stirred Hollywood's drink.
"I remember when international buyers had to be forced to take TV product, and they only wanted movies -- now it's the other way around," Jeff Sagansky, former president of CBS Entertainment and a former senior executive at Sony, told TheWrap. The latest annual reports show that film has become a very small piece of the overall revenue pie. Television can be counted on to generate roughly half of a company's revenue and up to 80 percent of its operating income, such as at Time Warner. (Sony does not break out its TV and film revenues and thus was not included in the survey.)
View gallery. Picture It & Write | Fresh Ink. Again the people over at Ermilia’s blog have posted another Picture It & Write article. For those who don’t know what this is, they post a picture and then write a brief story about the image. They then ask for you to join in, your can either carry on their story or write your own. You can also do poetry and even something in another language (providing there is a translation posted along with it). I encourage everyone to give it a go because it helps get the “creative juices” flowing. My story is a continuation of the original article, which can be found here. …My fingertips touched the cool glass.
Suddenly she stopped in her tracks. My mother appeared in the doorway of the sitting room; “What are you…” she stopped mid sentence after she saw the horror on my face. “What have you done?” I couldn’t answer. Like this: Like Loading...
Ideas for WIP. General Research. Publishing and E-books. Ideas for Characters. The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart - Alexis Madrigal - Technology. Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone's favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens. Well, that time never existed. All this to say: our collective memory of past is astoundingly inaccurate. So, then why is there this widespread perception that we are a fallen literary people? After I posted this chart, Twitter friends made some good points: 1) This chart does not establish that high-quality literature readers have increased.
Point four comes with an embedded assumption that the books of the past were, on average, better than the ones today. Writers info. 9 things to never say in a book club. Making judgments about a relationship in a book can too easily translate to real life. If you didn't finish a book, it's perfectly acceptable to still sit in and listenConfused emotions aren't the best when it comes to a literary mind meldCriticizing someone for picking a certain book might lead them to quitting (Oprah.com) -- 1.
"So, who liked the book and who didn't? " Beginning the night this way divides the group. 2. Most of us come to book club to escape stress and reality. It's perfectly acceptable to sit and nibble and listen. Oprah.com: Why it's really okay to mess up 3. Emotions are hard. The whole discussion will swerve onto what the inexplicably confused person might be feeling, with everybody in the group taking guesses, instead of talking about the book. If someone has a strong reaction, they might want to see if others felt the same way ("Did anyone else find this a difficult read?
4. Ouch. Oprah.com: Is independence the key to happiness? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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