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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
How many of those sites had the girls under exclusive contracts like Wicked, Vivid and others did?
Because you think in only one field. I think of the whole porn field.
Yes Shap did very well. Could he of done better by employing full time a person who knew about the commodity this business is based on?
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I've just figured out why you continue to think you're always right and everyone else continues to think you're always wrong. It's because the bulk of your career took place in an era where the consumer had little to no say of what was made available to them and where 'quality' was defined by whatever it was the publishers deemed to be quality. By and large, the industry as functioning as a market with fixed prices. When the internet caused the market to open up and the laws of supply and demand kicked in, wages were eventually driven down to the level that they would have been at for years had there been a more free market.
Compounding those issues was a lack of fluidity, a lack competition and a lack of communication. How did you know what your competition was doing ? Copy deadlines were probably further out from publication than they are now, so looking at a two month old Penthouse spread would only tell you what Michael Ancher or Suze Randall was doing 6 months prior. They were probably keeping their work fresh by incorporating previously unrelated elements and in doing so they were able to push their craft and the industry as a whole forward. Not having access to the same information and or the same networks made it difficult to keep up and even though publishers didn't necessarily know what it was that their consumers liked about their products, they just continued to pay the fixed rate because they didn't know any better. In a such a situation, it's easy to see why you think the way you do.