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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 9630418" data-attributes="member: 70">Kinda seems like you're arguing that if men buy fewer books, the publishing industry should keep publishing the same quantities for them, but at a loss. Anyway, They still publish books I enjoy, and I'm a man, so I assume that means they still publish books men enjoy. Sometimes I have to dig a little more, but there are a lot of books being published and fewer stores with less shelf space, so that makes sense.SF wasn't exactly known for appealing to the &quot;female audience&quot; before the 2000s, yet somehow they've managed to move into it. Men aren't &quot;frozen&quot; out of sf &amp; fantasy by any means.And honestly, what is &quot;fantasy aimed at men&quot;? I got several hundred books from someone whose husband had died, and it's all military sf. I don't recognize half the authors, and I'm not all that interested in the books. So....which &quot;men&quot;? Conversely, I just today finished Nona the Ninth, part of the Locked Tomb series (probably a quartet now), which is almost always referred to as Lesbian Necromancers In Space. I avoided this series for ages because, eww, girl sf. Jokes on me, it's really, really good. It's not a one-trick pony; there's logic at play; and it's very well written.Anyway, read what you want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 9630418, member: 70"] Kinda seems like you're arguing that if men buy fewer books, the publishing industry should keep publishing the same quantities for them, but at a loss. Anyway, They still publish books I enjoy, and I'm a man, so I assume that means they still publish books men enjoy. Sometimes I have to dig a little more, but there are a lot of books being published and fewer stores with less shelf space, so that makes sense. SF wasn't exactly known for appealing to the "female audience" before the 2000s, yet somehow they've managed to move into it. Men aren't "frozen" out of sf & fantasy by any means. And honestly, what is "fantasy aimed at men"? I got several hundred books from someone whose husband had died, and it's all military sf. I don't recognize half the authors, and I'm not all that interested in the books. So....which "men"? Conversely, I just today finished [I]Nona the Ninth[/I], part of the Locked Tomb series (probably a quartet now), which is almost always referred to as Lesbian Necromancers In Space. I avoided this series for ages because, eww, girl sf. Jokes on me, it's really, really good. It's not a one-trick pony; there's logic at play; and it's very well written. Anyway, read what you want. [/QUOTE]

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