Succession plan or exit strategy for a business.
Develop a succession plan or exit strategy for a business. Within your response, be sure to discuss which elements are essential to this succession plan or exit strategy. Provide support for your response.
Sam
quick, thumbnail narratives can be attributed to the amount of time that readers have available to them (are working hours longer now? Women have less time to read? Population less ~feudalistic~ so more people working/ fewer have time to read?)
In a similar way, the novel is decreasingly competitive versus film and television. For example, the final Harry Potter book sold 8.3 million copies in the US on the day of its release, a ‘record’ figure according to the New York Times (Rich, 2007). This pales in comparison with the estimated 45.5 million tickets sold in the US for the release day of the final Harry Potter film, and similar case studies can be observed in TV viewing figures compared to book sales. A successful modern novel like ‘The Girl on the Train’ …
The new purpose of the novel: solely to entertain/ crippling emphasis on profit, popular success. Talk about publishing figures; need articles, interviews, insights into the direction of the market/ popular consumption and the pressure on publishers to deliver what will sell. Talk particularly about the role of the media in deciding what will and won’t sell and how we are trained to view books before buying them (i.e. reviews in magazines, other things like feminist sentiment in v recent media that have driven sales of erotic fiction for women, for example). As a result, what genres are popular that weren’t/ weren’t around before? What do people look at before purchasing a novel? When do they read them? For what purpose? Consider TGoTT chapter length thing.
It is also worth exploring how shifts in education and the curriculum can potentially impact reading. For example, the inclusion of canonical novels in the secondary English literature curriculum is widely felt to expose students to a high standard of literature, encouraging them to read more and helping them to feel they can understand and access it. However, this was not always the situation: until the early 1990s the state school English curriculum did not include a literary canon, and as a result studying classic literature like Brontë and Dickens remained the preserve of
