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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Sometimes people confuse their personal opinion with fact. There was an interesting opinion piece earlier this week on that very subject. IMPO, the answer is that it's likely not racist, but some people tend to assume racism when someone else does something they disagree with.
In general, if a reader is looking for something specific in a book, i.e. characters who belong to a specific category, be they black, gay whatever, it can be helpful if all those books were lumped together. If those readers make up a big enough percentage of a book stores customer base, then I think it would make perfect sense to create a separate area for those books.
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...but then all those books will *only* be seen by those customers...which is a problem when it comes to discoverability.
Shari