Why do books not have age ratings, but age demographics/target audiences instead?
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Because children generally have no interest in buying or reading novels for adults. For an 8 year-old reading a novel is hard, much harder than watching an R-rated movie or playing an M-rated video game, so most of them won’t even try.
If that ever changed and elementary schoolers started lining up to buy 50 Shades of Gray tomorrow, we’d probably have a rating system within months.
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Ratings are made out of political expendiance.
A movie is 90ish minutes and you can easily with a minute or two figure out what content is in it.
A book can take multiple hours to process and figure out what kind of content could be in it
Finally, they have words not pictures, a politician can’t look cool with a scary picture promising to fix the problem.
Movies got ratings for that reason, same for books and comic books. Back in the day there were attempts to regulate books based on content. They tended to be based on specific books or ideas though, and history have not viewed them fondly
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