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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I see, so giving an example is childish, thus that example can be dismissed and the other example can be spun as prizes only value is how much sales are generated by them. Oh, and then you can simply assume that I'm not well aware that poets have won the Noble prize, ergo I must be pig ignorant of it. Yes, it's a nice rhetorical device if you can pull it off.
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You haven't quite answered yet as if you are backpedaling.
The Bob Dylan issue put a dark stain on the handling of the Nobel Prize, I give you that. It is an outlier case, and Bob Dylan alone is not to blame. A part, possibly the bigger part, lies in how badly the commitee handled it. He clearly did not want anything to do with it, they should have simply given up and give the prize to the second up runner. You missed my subtle hint why I mentioned poetry. Look up the wording of why they decided to award Bob Dylan.
With that out of the way, how about the increased sales? That was your other feeling that the Nobel Prize lost importance. Does that make, in comparison, the Hugo as a prize any more important? I think not. And I have already voiced my opinion for the Nobel Prize not meant as a sales boost. Naturally there will be some added interest, either by revisiting the books to look at them in a new light, or scratch an itch if you are interested in history, possibly history in the making. Different prizes have different target groups. Subjectively your own group is the most important.