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Originally Posted by caleb72
How about any indie book EXCEPT those in the SFF genres.  |
If it's limited to new self-publications, rather than re-releases of formerly published books that the author's reclaimed the rights for, the SFF skew might not be so bad. (That starts getting into complicated rules for what should be simple categories, though.)
If some months are categorized by content-theme (mystery, romance) and other months are categorized by publication status (classic, indie) there's going to be room for crossover.
I think "classic" should have a definition; potentially "public domain" or "would be public domain under the rules it was first published under." I'm not sure it's a classic if there's no evidence people care to read it 50 years later. (I'm sure the Harry Potter books will be marked as a noteworthy cultural phenomenon in another 50 years; I'm not sure people will still be pushing them at kids as Important Literature.)
"Indie" probably needs some kind of definition as well. "Self-published" is easy; "Indie" is not. How small does a publishing company have to be to be "independent?"
Another potential category is "new books"--first published within the last 3 years. Or within the last year.