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Originally Posted by barryem
Genre doesn't exist as pertains to reading. It's a marketing term.
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Thank goodness for that marketing or I would have great difficulty finding something to read that I enjoy!
Barry, I don't know your area or age, but they've had genre demarcation at bookstores even when my mom was a girl and she's 84 now. I think what's changed is that there are more genres, or at least more sub genres. Many department stores or other stores like Walgreens only have like 50-100 tiitles, so there's no reason for them to separate genres. There's a photo of my grandmother in 1932 or 33 at the book section of a department store with the titles of several genres on the bookshelves behind her including mystery, adventure, western and macabre (I think that is horror).