Why do books not have age ratings, but age demographics/target audiences instead?

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Why do books not have age ratings, but age demographics/target audiences instead?

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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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