tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post8357330018394802017..comments2024-03-22T11:34:45.165+01:00Comments on taw's blog: Tastes of movie critics and tastes of the publictawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972845140253292628noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post-52595711838967455222009-07-20T05:52:15.390+02:002009-07-20T05:52:15.390+02:00As far as I know information on book sales is not ...As far as I know information on book sales is not public, and you have to pay some big money to get access to it.<br /><br />As far as I remember movie sales data is more available, but I never needed it, so I don't know for sure.tawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16972845140253292628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post-39082603603147078262009-07-20T05:49:12.338+02:002009-07-20T05:49:12.338+02:00well you've certainly done a great job with th...well you've certainly done a great job with this post! similarly, i've found it hard to find out numbers of book sales--i thought it would be easier to get that kind of information.Mike Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12076721303612820935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post-60842489861624598222009-07-19T21:40:34.691+02:002009-07-19T21:40:34.691+02:00Mike: It's surprisingly difficult to find high...Mike: It's surprisingly difficult to find high quality data on the Internet. Usually I have to write quite a bit of Ruby scripts to screenscrap, extract, and process the data to get anything bloggable ;-)tawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16972845140253292628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post-12622107792536196752009-07-18T04:39:15.145+02:002009-07-18T04:39:15.145+02:00very interesting! i'd be curious to see how t...very interesting! i'd be curious to see how the imdb list matches up with video/dvd sales, since those are the movies i'd guess people return to over and over, and maybe mentions of films in academic texts, journals, et c (someone did this with art, finding picasso was the most influential by paintings included in books on art--something like that.Mike Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12076721303612820935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27488238.post-9643170799071561862009-07-12T23:26:25.594+02:002009-07-12T23:26:25.594+02:00An interesting conclusion and yeah, no idea why th...An interesting conclusion and yeah, no idea why the critics some times don't like it then...Quickshotnoreply@blogger.com