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Critics say the conglomerates have damaged book publishing with their obsessive pursuit of "blockbusters ." Last year, 212 hardcovers sold more than 100,000 copies, establishing a new record.
Midlist Crisis: Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the "midlist " book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.
The Oscars came too late for Europe's Monday morning papers, but Alexander Walker, veteran film critic of the London Evening Standard , wrote in an op-ed piece that the Academy Awards encourage Hollywood's overheated, overhyped obsession with blockbusters, which is strangling the creative spirit.
Rap returns us to the same sprawling prolixity as 1890s ballads--and 12-verse story songs, whether they're lilting waltzes or numbingly hard-core, are rarely distinguished as music . Almost all turn-of-the-century blockbusters have the simplest of tonal structures.
Jacob Weisberg's Aug. 20 "The Browser" on uncritical movie critics is wrong, I think, to suggest that mainstream critics should ignore blockbusters or dismiss them in a paragraph.