Any reasonable person can see why a publisher would want to make sure everyone knows that a book or an author has won an award. Noting it on a books cover, an authors bio, on his/her web site, at a convention, wherever really.
But what I'm curious about is the designation "nominated for..." or "...nominee"
Are genre fiction publishers more inclined to include these designations then there more mainstream counterparts. If so, then why. Are genre publishers scrambling for acceptance and recognition in an attempt to say "see, see, it was nominated for an award it must be good..."
When reading a book that was nominated for an award does one immediately have the knee-jerk reaction of asking "who won"? I personally don't.
Or in the case of some awards that have a lot and I mean A LOT of categories, do the amount of categories devalue the award. Like the Hugo, there are so many damn categories that it seems like everyone in the field has one. Does the fact or more importantly the perception that EVERYONE has a Hugo diminish the award. I think it does to some degree.
Does a large amount of nominees devalue the award. If 20 books are nominated and the award has been around for awhile then that's a lot of nominees. Theoretically then everybody would be a nominee. If everyone is advertised as a ______ nominee then its a level playing field right.
If the genre is small in terms of the reading community and sales and there are a large amount of awards isn't that the equivalent of getting a participation trophy in little league.
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