Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!milton!maddox@blake.acs.washington.edu From: maddox@blake.acs.washington.edu (Tom Maddox) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: The VR Entertainment Industry Message-ID: <5885@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 3 Aug 90 03:07:15 GMT References: <9007160320.AA21126@aic.hrl.hac.com> <1990Jul26.171516.21252@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 21 Approved: hitl@hardy.u.washington.edu In article <1990Jul26.171516.21252@ariel.unm.edu> rkelly%hydra.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (Robert Kelly) writes: >William Gibson - author of Neuromancer and Count Zero - is ALREADY >making millions on the VR as an entertainment media. He'd be astounded to hear it. >And since his is just the written concept of it, there is more money to be >had by entreprenuring minds. Actually, he's made about as much money writing film scripts as he has writing books. And when you factor in what he's made selling film rights to books and stories, he's almost certainly made more off films (though none of them has been made) than books. -- Tom Maddox "Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly." Orson Scott Card