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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