> But I find it very hard to accept that the average
reader, even the
> average TV viewer is a passive consumer. For
instance, Virginia
> Radway's studies of readers of romance novels proved
they were very
> active in their reading, from their choices of what
to read to their
> discussions with other fans, etc. And that was
before the internet.
> Think of all of the fan sites and fan forums for any
kind of
> entertainment, from sports to TV to comics to us
here. Hardly seems
> passive to me.
>
> Mark
But sad to say, from what I've seen on a variety of boards
and email lists dedicated to Edgar RIce Burroughs, Robert E.
Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Sword and Sorcery fiction, there
are very vocal people out there who accept anything in the
genre or any pastiche and believe its all good. For many of
these peopl, anything is classic if its older than 10 years
old, and it must really be classic if it went out of print in
an earlier incarnation of DAW.
Maybe this is just a particular genre, or sub-genre, but if
these folks are average readers, the planet is
doomed...
Best, MEH
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