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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Only one of the two that you mentioned are observational. Unless I missed your source, that you didn't mention, about low sales increases. In any case it would be hard to track, without reliable source, a correlation between Nobel Prize and increased sales, let alone show a causation. Most other prizes in literature concentrate on a single book, or possible books if it happens to be a series, that are recently released.
Only because you say so, doesn't make it so. Among all the reasons you could have mentioned, you cherry pick two. I have to assume, please correct me if I am out of line with my thinking here, that those two reason are the most important to you. Why, oh why, did you have to drag Bob Dylan into the spotlight and ignore last years scandal? That, in my humble opinion, did a whole lot more damage than both your prime reasons combined. You would unfortunately also have to admit that last year's events gave a good beginning to start reparations of lost trust and reputation in the Nobel Prize as it was intended to be. No more sex, crime, and corruption. Maybe even less euro centricity going forward.
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Yep, your thinking is way out of line. Those were merely the first two rationals that popped in my mind, certainly not the two most important rationals in forming my opinion. They are both observational. I have no way of actually checking to see what award moves the needle on sales the most, which is why I said "I suspect". The suspicion is based on the observation that I remember seeing a lot more books with the blurb "Pulizter prize winner" or "Newbury prize winner" among others, that I see "Nobel prize winner". Maybe it's valid, maybe it isn't.
The observation that Bob Dylan didn't show up for the award ceremony and his muted reaction to winning it was much, much more important to my opinion, than the fact that Dylan, a song writer, won it.
Cherry picked? Really? Cherry picked is a term used when someone ignores facts that doesn't match a thesis. Since no one has put out any facts at all, how can I be cherry picking? We are talking opinions, not facts. Using the term in that manner renders it meaningless.