06-01-2012, 01:16 PM | #16 |
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That was kind of my point in my post. There is potentially a lot of double counting in these numbers.
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I don't know. Of course it's the publishers who make the decision on what is counted as Religion as far as written works that are published. We the consumers can accept or reject a given book as being part of a genre but it's the publishers who print the genre on the covers.
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So I chatted with a rep at B&N about how this works and how they categorize their books in their store. They will only put books in the religion section that primary topic, and intention is to promote or inform about a religion. New age would likely count. They stated that most stores categorize books they way they feel they will be findable by the correct target audience, not by anything the publisher or author says. Basically the understanding I got from that was that the STORES determine the genre, not publisher or author. At least as far as if you want to find the book to buy it. I do not know how it impacts the numbers quoted above because we do not have any information about them, but genre, IMO, is about the worst thing to use to find/categorize a book anymore as it is too flexible and subjective. |
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A lot of these numbers can reflect popularity in other media as well, for example, right now SF isn't big in movies (despite the ever-popular adventure movies that usually have SF elements), but spikes in SF movie popularity, such as the period immediately following Star Wars, also saw literary SF spikes. We may see another spike if Promethius does well in the box office and other SF movies try to ride that wave. |
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While I agree with this statement, can you imagine going to a bookstore without genres labels? Everything is arranged... alphabetically by author's name? (Fine for a small bookstore, not so good with a huge selection.)
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Right, there is another thread here where we talked about this and I stated for a retail brick and mortar kind of location it works okay-ish, but in the era of stores like Amazon with a gazillion books it completely fails. I prefer a tag based system that you do searches and groupings in. Judging by Amazon's success with the system, and other stores slowly moving to copy it, I do not think I am alone.
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If you do searches for the Religion/Inspirational/Spiritual category by popularity what you mostly get are romances, but I'd guess that "New Age" fits as well. Since romances sell the best of all genres, it shouldn't surprise that there are a lot of smutless romances marketed under the Religion genre.
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I have read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Life of Pi by Yann Martel and I suppose they might be classified as spiritual and lumped into this category, but I think of those as literary fiction. I've read some science fiction/fantasy where the author resolved the conflict with "goddidit", not sure those really count as religious books, but they certainly are annoying. Last edited by Synamon; 06-04-2012 at 09:23 AM. |
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I would think it does, for lack of a separate genre.
As I said back there somewhere, you could probably derive any numbers you want depending on how you slice and dice. You know, "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_d...and_statistics |
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