Genre labels are very necessary. It’s the same thing with
all these book covers and what is so important about them. If we didn’t have
book cover or genre labels we wouldn’t know what we are reading. I’m not going
to want to read something if it’s just a blank cover and I don’t know what kind
of book it is. There’s no advertising at all.
It’d be like if you saw a commercial or preview for a movie.
If it just showed you the movie title and showed a picture or scene of a
character and then just said “go see this movie” then you aren’t going to have
any interest in it whatsoever. You don’t know if it’s a comedy, horror, action,
chick flick or whatever.
I don’t find it distracting. I mean there are labels, like
non-fiction, that will turn me away from books. But that’s because I don’t like
non-fiction. The genre labels help us to define what we like and dislike and
what we want to read and don’t want to read. I’m sure there are people out
there who see non-fiction and want to go read that book.
Book covers and genre labels are very similar things. They
mean different things to different people and attract different audiences.
Without them we’d be lost and all our interest would be based off of nothing.
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