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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
I want to be clear no members were accusing me of unintentional racism. The point that I've heard made is that through promotion, social network websites, and publishers, that the books that were landing in the hands of readers were mainly from white authors. They were not stating that readers were selecting books based on author race, but that most of the books being pushed toward us and actually published happened to be based on race from the publisher end of things, based on the marketing companies, etc. As to the truth and stats of that, I have no idea.
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That was also the case being made against Grimshaw for shelving romances by black authors in the African American Interest section of Borders rather than in the general Romance section.
I can see cases for both sides and won't pretend to have enough understanding to say who is right there. But it is interesting to think about.