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Old 01-08-2008, 04:12 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Zevs View Post
It seems though that earlier on there were more what I call "mainstream fiction" in the list of new books every week, and just to give some examples of what I mean by that are books by authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Doris Lessing, Haruk Murakami, Mark Helprin, Patrick O'Brian, Paul Auster etc I'm not saying that there isn't this kind of books on Connect, there sure are, but I hope that the proportion of these will not be reduced. But as I said perhaps I'm wrong, it just seems the updates this year contain less of these kind of books than before..
This should not be a surprise. The Sony Connect store wants to sell books. To do that, they have to offer books that sell. Romances and thrillers sell. If a brick and mortar bookstore sold only "quality" literature, they'd likely go out of business very quickly. A web based seller will have the same constraints.

And you can make a case there there is no such thing as "mainstream" literature these days -- only an increasing number of genres popular enough to get separate classifications.
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