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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And what exactly would that say about "what women read" or "what men read"? Unless, of course, women borrowing ebooks from Overdrive are entirely representative of "All Women Who Read Books"?
Even if we're talking simple majorities here, that's a far cry from the sweeping, insulting, stereotypical generalizations being slung around here willy-nilly.
You (rhetorical) want to say there's a large contingent of women who buy/borrow/read romance novels? Have it. I won't argue. How could I? But the leap from that to "Women read for X and Men read for Y (or Women can't write Y well)" does not follow. Not even a little bit.
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Overdrive doesn't have to understand anything but the numbers. The numbers may be telling them to feature those books written by women, whatever the underlying reason. So, I'm not convinced the featured books are the product of any kind of bias or agenda on Overdrive's part (thinking back to the original post), other than to try to make the most money they can.
I did describe that women are predominant at my branch. So, that might explain why books popular among women may be featured the most. I personally haven't tried to explain anything about why it's that way. Others are trying, but to be fair, that's kind of what this thread was started for.