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		rquantz on Feb 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million Show Also, the cost of entry for creating a high quality book is much lower than for creating a high quality movie/tv show. This allows a wider variety of viewpoints, forms, styles, and ideas to be expressed in book form than tv.

alaskamiller on Feb 4, 2013 [–]

Kind of sounds like YouTube.

rquantz on Feb 4, 2013 | [–]

Except that you can't produce longform, high quality content on YouTube for any cheaper than you can produce a tv show.

JoeAltmaier on Feb 4, 2013 | | [–]

Resolution? Distribution? Length? Advertising support? Its a whole different economic (and technical) environment; costs are likely unrelated to any TV model.

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