Yesterday I tried to post an eBook and found that the genre prefixes do need work (IMHO). So I think we should sort them out so they make more sence overall and have more genres for books we have but don't have proper genres for.
I went to Fictionwise and took their list of genres and came up with the following based on their overall list.
Fiction- Children
- Fantasy
- Historical Fiction
- Horror
- Humor
- Mystery/Crime
- Romance
- Science Fiction
- Suspense/Thriller
- Young Adult
Nonfiction- Business
- Children
- Food/Recipes
- History
- Biography/Autobiography
- Personal Finance
- Politics/Government
- Reference
- Self Improvement
- Spiritual/Religion
- Sports/Entertainm't
- Technology/Science
- Travel
Misc- Other Fiction
- Other Non-Fiction
- Poetry
We do have eBooks that fit most of these categories. What we have now does not define in enough categories and some are just plain not right such as SF&F should be separated into Science Fiction and Fantasy as two separate categories.
Here is the list as we have it now...
- Action
- Graphic
- Mystery
- Poetry
- Romance
- SF&F
- Short Fiction
- Youth
- Biography
- History
- Philosophy
- Reference
- Spiritual
- Other
Now to work the current list into the newly proposed list....
- Action - goes away
- Graphic - I don't think we'll ever have a need for this one
- Mystery - becomes Mystery/Crime
- Poetry - stays
- Romance - stays
- SF&F - becomes separated out as Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Short Fiction - goes away
- Youth - becomes Young Adult and we add Children
- Biography - becomes Biography/Autobiography
- History - stays
- Philosophy - stays
- Reference - stays
- Spiritual - becomes Spiritual/Religion
- Other - becomes Other Fiction & Other non-Fiction
Now I know we will have to go back and sort out the existing prefixes. So the sooner this is sorted, the less work there will be to fix what needs fixing.
Yes, I know I am restarting this thread, but we need to get this sorted one and for all so that all that needs possibly be done is add genres and not change what's already there. So pleaswe chime in and let's get this sorted.