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Originally Posted by vulcan_girl
One thing I've noticed when searching books and using "romance" as the genre, I get a lot of results that aren't straight romance. They might have some romantic elements, but aren't romances, and romance readers get irritated at the fakery. Books get tagged with the romance label because it's the top-selling genre and that makes them more visible.
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I've noticed that, too. The big publishers use the "romance" label to sell everything from family sagas to chick lit to non-romance urban fantasy to horror novels that have sex scenes.
Also, on B&N, there are lots of public domain classics categorized as "romance" because 1) the businesses putting them up wouldn't know a romance if one fell on them or 2) they don't know what the books are about or 3) they are hoping to get more sales by abusing categories or 4) all of the above. For example, under "Romance" tonight, I found The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, some PD Westerns, and some Sinclair Lewis. What?!
By the way, I
don't look like my avatar. Just thought I'd mention.
