You know, I think this part pretty much says it all:
"We spent a lot of time in the ’90s trying to distance the network from science fiction."
Because, absolutely, the people you want to manage and market a niche product are people with general contempt for that product and its audience! Imagine how well Harlequin would be doing if they were run by people who "tried to distance their books from romance" and described their readers as a bunch of fat middle-aged housewives.
Or, I don't know, like a knitting-supply shop changing its name to LAND O'STUFF and tossing out the yarn to make room on the shelves for cheese, donuts and auto parts... because everyone knows knitters don't have any money to spend. (SO WHY BUY A KNITTING SHOP IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU UTTER MORONS.)
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"We spent a lot of time in the ’90s trying to distance the network from science fiction."
Because, absolutely, the people you want to manage and market a niche product are people with general contempt for that product and its audience! Imagine how well Harlequin would be doing if they were run by people who "tried to distance their books from romance" and described their readers as a bunch of fat middle-aged housewives.
Or, I don't know, like a knitting-supply shop changing its name to LAND O'STUFF and tossing out the yarn to make room on the shelves for cheese, donuts and auto parts... because everyone knows knitters don't have any money to spend. (SO WHY BUY A KNITTING SHOP IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU UTTER MORONS.)