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Originally Posted by jersysman
I always wanted to know who decides which books will be nominated and the criteria. Is that explained somewhere on the page? I just took a quick glance.
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From their rules:
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We analyze statistics from the 250 million books added, rated, and reviewed on the site in 2013 to nominate 15 books in each category. Opening round official nominees must have an average rating of 3.50 or higher. Write-in votes may be cast for eligible books with any average rating, and write-in votes will be weighted by the book’s number of ratings to determine the top five books to be added as official nominees in the Semifinal Round.
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It's very much a "readers' choice" thing, i.e. there is no jury deciding on the value of the books. You could call it a popularity contest, I suppose, but it's not just as simple as bestsellers - it's bestsellers that people also turned out to genuinely enjoy, enough to rate them highly at first and then to vote for them in the contest.
I've actually read several in a few of the categories this time, amazingly, but didn't vote in more than half of the categories due to not having read any (some are on my TBR lists though, I just haven't got around to them yet).