Comments | mariness: Lessons learned from yesterday:

mariness

Lessons learned from yesterday:

Jul 13, 2011 11:06

1) Barnes and Noble will, oddly enough, put A Dance With Dragons in a huge display area in the front of the store but not have any copies in the science fiction/fantasy section, which will get slightly interesting if you entered through the video/music section of the store and headed to the science fiction/fantasy section first and then got ( Read more... )

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fadethecat July 13 2011, 17:49:18 UTC

My local library branch files the whole Game of Thrones series in general adult fiction. It also puts two of the Swordspoint books there, and all of the Doctrine of Labyrinth series, and all but the third book of the Daywatch series...

Genre classification decisions are really weird sometimes.

mariness July 13 2011, 19:32:42 UTC

I can certainly see several fantasy novels -- particularly "contemporary" fantasy (the Charles de Lint sort) since I guess "urban fantasy" now means "vampires/werewolves" -- in general adult fiction.

This book, without giving much away, has flying dragons. If you aren't putting it in the fantasy section I'm not sure why you have one...

fadethecat July 13 2011, 19:39:26 UTC

It's when they split a single author--or worse yet, a single SERIES--between sections that I decide it's entirely arbitrary, at least in the library. I guess people file the books wherever they look like they should go, and so if you have a cover that looks like it could be historical fiction with heraldry, or just looks Adult rather than Gaudy, well, into general fiction it goes!

...or for all I know, someone just forgot to change a field when entering a lot of books at once. I haven't actually worked in a library in any format since elementary school, so I don't know what the process usually is.

wyldemusick July 14 2011, 19:51:22 UTC

My local library sticks Chelsea Quinn Yarbro in general fiction too.

felisdemens July 13 2011, 18:27:16 UTC

Re #1: Same with Naamah's Breakfast or whatever. Really? None in the SF/F section? *beady eye*

mariness July 13 2011, 19:34:09 UTC

Right! I saw that, and since that book isn't exactly getting the same attention (although I'm certain it will sell well; Carey has devoted followers) I thought, what, you couldn't carry one or two copies over to the Fantasy section, instead of burying it in the new books section -- and in a lower area of the new books section? What was with that?

bondo_ba July 14 2011, 01:31:57 UTC

I'm actually watching the 1001 Movies to see before you die for this reason. It's nice to see things from back when they'd not been done to death!

mariness July 14 2011, 13:33:54 UTC

Heh.

cardinalximinez July 14 2011, 10:59:25 UTC

The counterargument is that Hollywood does make smart, original movies, but they don't get financially rewarded for them, so they don't bother. So they make more movies about fighting robots.

Another argument is that you were there for _Horrible Bosses_, what did you expect? ;-)

mariness July 14 2011, 13:34:56 UTC

They've gotten financially rewarded for quite a few of them. For that matter, in its defense, Horrible Bosses wasn't a remake of anything, and yet, every. single. one. of its trailers was for a remake or a sequel.