Should Books Have a Genre?
Here is an interesting discussion from Book Square on whether or not classifying books into genres helps or hurts sales.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
“When I think of book shopping as I think of website shopping, sure, it’s a lousy analogy. You can argue that readers are free to wander the aisles of bookstores with wild abandon. The serendipity factor is alive and well when it comes to human behavior. Of course, it only works if the customer wanders to the specific aisle, specific shelf that houses a book of interest (it also only works if the book is in stock and whatnot). ”
