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Old 07-31-2009, 08:20 PM   #103
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
It might work OK. But if publishers start to relate sales figures with this rating I suppose there is a risk at least for implicit pressure put on authors writing for example YA.

Actually I seem to remember a recent debate about whether a YA label was bad or not. Some authors writing books that was sold as YA did not like to have this label at all.
I can't stand the label, it's demeaning to those who it intends to target and I fear its only there to help marketers, not readers or writers.
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