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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Yep, but the discussion seemed to have shifted to focusing on the difficulties of categorizing physical books in physical stores, a situation different enough to be considered separately, imo.
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I guess I was thinking physical store constraints for two reasons:
1) only in a physical store do you have to choose just one category to put the book in (I suppose they could put half the stock in each category), in the online system plenty of books are put in both (which doesn't actually help much with the problem, see next)
2) only in a physical store is book categorisation (actual shelf placement) up to the book seller. In online stores categories are generally provided by the publisher, so the fact that you end up with YA stuff appearing under romance, sci-fi, fantasy, and George Orwell and Émile Zola appearing under YA is (as far as I know) not Kobo's fault.