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Actual Long Tail Data Is Underwhelming
Inside Google Book Search: New Proof of (Long Tail) Concept
What’s the long tail theory? The idea in the context of book publishing is that online exposure has the potential to capture what might otherwise be lost book sales.
As I observed previously, actual long tail data presented at this Book Industry Study Group conference is rather underwhelming. In most markets the long tail appears to amount to around 25% of total revenue. Significant, to be sure, but the stuff of operating efficiencies, not market revolutions.
Da Vinci Code Movie Disappointing
Defamer, the L.A. Gossip Rag: First Rumblings Of A ‘Da Vinci Code’ DisappointmentBased on the first reviews trickling in from an eve-of-premiere press screening of The Da Vinci Code at Cannes, this might be a good time for the Imagine assistants to make a busy-work project of re-alphabetizing the office take-out menu binder in anticipation of a possible office-lockdown lunch of shame once their bosses return to LA from their promotional rail tour on the Blasphemy Express. An early Da Vinci Code panning round-up (links in Defamer article):
· “The feeling moved quickly from one of great anticipation to one of, shockingly, great boredom…instead of the film building to a white knuckle conclusion, it was the audience fidgeting as Da Vinci passed the two-hour mark and unveiled the first of its half-dozen endings…by the time the big climactic moment of the film finally arrived, the audience burst out laughing, as if this were yet another classic bit of Tom Hanks comedy. As the credits rolled, not a single bit of applause was heard.” [FilmStew]
· “[R]eaction from Cannes critics ranged from mild endorsement of its potboiler suspense to groans of ridicule over its heavy melodrama. ‘It’s a movie about whether the greatest story ever told is true or not, and it’s not the greatest movie ever screened, is it?’ said Baz Bamigboye, a film columnist for London’s Daily Mail. ‘As a thriller, well,’ he continued, shrugging.” [AP]
· “‘Nothing really works. It’s not suspenseful. It’s not romantic. It’s certainly not fun,’ said Stephen Schaefer of the Boston Herald. ‘It seems like you’re in there forever. And you’re conscious of how hard everybody’s working to try to make sense of something that basically perhaps is unfilmable.’ [Reuters]
· “[D]irector Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have conspired to drain any sense of fun out of the melodrama, leaving expectant audiences with an oppressively talky film that isn’t exactly dull but comes as close to it as one could imagine with such provocative material; result is perhaps the best thing the project’s critics could have hoped for.” [Variety]
Uh-oh.
This reader knows not the journey he has begun
This reader knows not the journey he has begunReading The Da Vinci Code, “Harry Potter for adults” comes to mind. There’s a sense that writer Dan Brown and Potter author J. K. Rowling attended the same creative writing course.
“Tell the story using the simplest words you can,” their instructor might have advised. “You’re not writing poetry here. People aren’t looking for colour or rhythm or even a bon mot now and then; just tell the damn story.”
Ouch.
The game of Clue is quickly solved: It was the albino in the museum with the revolver.
But wait. Show me a mystery in which a murderous albino works for himself, and I’ll show you a flawed mystery.
Zing! Good one.
Heckuva job, Brownie!
courant.com | ‘DaVinci’ A Godsend To Book Industry
Heckuva job, Brownie!
Dan Brown’s novel “The DaVinci Code” - which suggests Jesus married Mary Magdalene, the Catholic Church suppressed that history (and women in general) and the Renaissance genius’s paintings hide clues to the whole story - is a publishing phenomenon. The author may be a false prophet, but his profits are for real, and Friday will mark the book’s second coming, so to speak: the film version starring Tom Hanks.
The release of The Da Vinci Code movie is stirring the creative juices of the world’s reporters. Good one, Brownie!
