[ SECRET POST #2861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2861 ⌋

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Comments

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I realize it's not the be-all-end-all, but as a huge representative of somewhere people buy fiction, Amazon doesn't even have a General Fiction category OR a Romance category as separate and distinct entities.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I tell a lie, Romance is its own category outside the Literature & Fiction category. Which also says a lot.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

It does say a lot.

It's making me laugh, in fact. Romance is not literature!!!!

It's ingrained snootiness like this, even in Amazon's category divisions, that meant that I deliberately didn't read any novel marked romance for many years, believing romance to be a ridiculous, niche genre.

Perhaps they even do this deliberately, to make reading less threatening for a certain style of reader? At the same time, making other books by implication not-romance, they boost the snob factor of general literature, even though those books also probably contain romance in them.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, I think the separation may have more to do with the size of the genre than anything else. Mysteries and Sci-Fi/Fantasy gets their own category too.

However a look at the first page of Genre Fiction returns mostly romantic-centric books, so you have to wonder about the classification at all.

There still isn't anything close to "General Fiction". Which makes sense, because most fiction, barring avant-garde experimental stuff, is about something, so "General Fiction" in and of itself sounds like a nebulous misnomer.