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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You shouldn't use a "simple rating" system, as when you set your intended or restricted audiences into mass groupings the ratings become inherently inaccurate for individuals. Specify: "This book contains subjects of sex and violence," "this book depicts adult themes and death," "this book depicts unconventional sexual behavior," etc. Let the consumer decide themselves, a much more efficient and fair method than using general ratings tied to arbitrary ages.
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This is better but I think even this is too simple. If it then can be shown that children or YA books containing "death" will sell less then authors will take this into consideration. Also for example "death" can be handled in many ways so it is unclear what a simple description like "depicts death" will give.
But if you describe the content you should also have things like "contains peudo-science", "contains atheism", "contains description positive to religion", and so on.
I think reading a review of the book is much better then using these simplified descriptions.