It's extremely unrealistic to expect anyone other than people who get ARC's to read books released
Aeryn Send a noteboard - 20/08/2010 11:30:25 PM
in the last few months.
By having these awards so closely to the nominations period you are essentially excluding laypeople.
If it's my favorite author, yeah, I'll read their book in the year it comes out. But even then, probably not in the very same month. In other words, Gathering Storm is going to sweep it.
Not to mention - we're talking hardcover release. People who wait for paperbacks will always be behind and just miss your dates cutoff.
I'm a pretty active reader & buyer of books. Still I only read 13 books that even fit the categories, and of those only 5 I might call "best of."
By having these awards so closely to the nominations period you are essentially excluding laypeople.
If it's my favorite author, yeah, I'll read their book in the year it comes out. But even then, probably not in the very same month. In other words, Gathering Storm is going to sweep it.
Not to mention - we're talking hardcover release. People who wait for paperbacks will always be behind and just miss your dates cutoff.
I'm a pretty active reader & buyer of books. Still I only read 13 books that even fit the categories, and of those only 5 I might call "best of."
This message last edited by Aeryn on 20/08/2010 at 11:42:46 PM
The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Nominations closed. Voting thread on Monday.
- 09/08/2010 06:45:13 PM
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Links to the Book Club posts for your convenience.
- 10/08/2010 04:51:09 PM
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Question
- 10/08/2010 04:53:06 PM
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Published. *NM*
- 10/08/2010 06:30:22 PM
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That's too restricting. You expect us to have read books published in the last month? Come on
- 20/08/2010 10:19:39 PM
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You've got books from August 2009 till July 2010.
- 20/08/2010 10:43:22 PM
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It's extremely unrealistic to expect anyone other than people who get ARC's to read books released
- 20/08/2010 11:30:25 PM
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Why do you keep talking about a month and months when the period is a year? I'm confused.
- 20/08/2010 11:42:22 PM
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I still don't understand you.
- 21/08/2010 12:57:53 AM
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You need to add categories "Favorite book read in Aug 2009-Jul 2010 release in prior years.) *NM*
- 21/08/2010 01:05:02 AM
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She's just noting that most of the eligible books are hardcovers and thus aren't read by many
- 21/08/2010 01:13:21 AM
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Don't think I've read enough to nominate
- 10/08/2010 08:00:15 PM
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To you and Camilla both: you can limit your nominations to a few categories, you know.
- 10/08/2010 08:29:59 PM
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Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine
- 11/08/2010 07:50:12 PM
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Re: Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine
- 11/08/2010 11:35:30 PM
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I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year...
- 11/08/2010 11:45:14 PM
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Re: I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year...
- 11/08/2010 11:47:15 PM
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But, yes please
- 12/08/2010 07:23:12 PM
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Re: The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Call for Nominations (1 week to go!)
- 20/08/2010 11:29:10 PM
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