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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
I don't think the public needs awards at all, but perhaps the industry and the authors do. I don't regard awards as a useful guide for my reading, just as I don't regard academy awards as a useful guide to movies' I might watch.
Maybe that's just me.
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Perhaps with the new rise of indie publishing, awards can serve part of the gatekeeper/dreck filter role that some folks value the BPHs for providing.
Perhaps we need awards like "Fewest Grammatical Atrocities in a Free Ebook," "Most Comprehensible Plot in a Self-Published First Novel," etc.