KD67 wrote:
First off, I am not trying to start anything. But, I don't understand the point of this. Authors are Authors no matter what their Ancestry happens to be. Why should there be a need for a special catagory based on their race? Should there be a Polish American, Irish American, Japanese American, Caucasian American, Russian, Indian etc, demographic breakdown also? If a book is fiction, then its fiction, non-fiction its non-fiction etc. And just for the record I am of Cherokee/Irish decent but I am just an American and before that I am just a Human.
Sorry if I offend in anyway.
I suspect the appropriateness of a separate category is a marketing question as much as it is a diversity question. If there is a market for a particular grouping, it often behooves a seller to cater to it.
I love to read broadly across a multitude of authors. Yet, I will say that I could pull several ethnic groupings of authors from my shelves. Did I buy them that way? Mostly only to the extent that my book group read Irish authors in March, Black literature in February, .... But others may have other buying patterns and sellers can profit by responding.
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