eBook Miner discussion

We are trying to list genres that cater for a wide audience. We have combined some to make it easier for our admin team and our audience. eBook Miner has offered some genres that other services do not, we will discuss adding short stories to the mix as well at our next general meeting (tomorrow).

Action/Adventure
Children
Crime
Erotica
Fantasy/Paranormal
Gay and Lesbian
Horror
Indie/Independent (break out books)
Literary Fiction
Mystery/Thriller
Non Fiction
Romance/Chicklit
Science Fiction
Self Help
Spiritual/Religion
Travel
Young Adult

Would you please consider adding historical fiction to the above list. Thank you.

Hello Dennis, we are trying to restrict the amount of genres (just due to manpower) so we may put historical fiction in with literary fiction ie historical/literary

Hi Mod, in which genre would you put a time travel romance?

That would go under Romance. :)

Are fantasy short stories and poetry allowed?

Hi Louise, initally, only novellas and longer works will be listed that is on Amazon, we will revise this in the future. :)

How about Poetry? :)

Can we pls include Medical Thrillers

Hi - can I second Dennis' request to include historical fiction? I would be happy if you included it with literary fiction. Otherwise I am not certain where my books would sit. Thanks!

historical fiction would be in literary fiction.

eBook wrote: "historical fiction would be in literary fiction."

That's odd. I would not think of looking for Bernard Cornwell or Simon Scarrow in literary fiction.

I guess they have to draw the line somewhere.

I agree with V.W. If historical fiction is not listed as being part of literary fiction, then it won't work. I certainly wouldn't look for Bernard Cornwell under Literary Fiction ...

We are trying to limit the amount of genres available.
This is for a variety of reasons including manpower, newsletter space, making it easier for subscribers etc.

We could literally put in another 20 genres fairly easy. We are open to the idea of adding historical fiction but we would have to discuss it. There are other genres that an author could put their work in, action/adventure etc.

We have some good news, we have decided due to feedback that we will open Historical Fiction up as a genre that we will offer. This brings the total to 18 genres. Thanks for the suggestion. We have some exciting new initiatives that will be announced in the coming weeks.

Thank you!

May I put in a bid for a humour category?

Hi Will, I think we are going to have to cap the genres at this stage. Humor is a great suggestion though, certainly worthy of further consideration. We are currently developing our website and just managed to squeeze in Historical fiction. I think we will look at adding more genres in a later stage of development after launch.

I think putting a Dystopia genre is timely. cause Its popular nowadays

Another excellent suggestion, especially because we love dystopia here at EBM but again, we will have to consider it at one of the later stages. Our web team is developing the website at the moment and we need to have everything finalized for our launch stage. It is great to have you in the group scribes23, you are a book reading machine!

I second the nomination for a humor category. Lots of book award contests have that as a category.

Dystopia and humor votes from me. Also, is it possible to add a holiday genre for the holidays?

Further genre suggestions aren't able to be considered until at least the stage after website launch as we are currently developing the site and don't want to have to go back and make changes all the time.

Will wrote: "May I put in a bid for a humour category?"

Please may I second Will's bid for a humour category? My books are humorous first and foremost which makes them almost impossible to categorise on the big reader/advertising sites because astonishingly, many of them leave humour out of it.

Cheers

MTM

eBook wrote: "Hi Will, I think we are going to have to cap the genres at this stage. Humor is a great suggestion though, certainly worthy of further consideration. We are currently developing our website and jus..."


Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Why? Humour is huge. Comics play to stadia like rock bands do. Comedy is the new rock n' roll so why will none of the book listings sites touch it?

Worse, I look for comedy above all else and it makes it so darn hard for me to find things to read.

Cheers

MTM

Thanks for the feedback guys, we're still building the website and mapping the general functionality so changes and tweaks will need to happen during future stages. At this stage we're focused on having a basic platform, covering a select amount of genres, further down the track we can look into growing the amount provided.

Fair enough, but Humour is one of the blindingly obvious go-to biggies. Leaving it off is is like starting a school and deciding to leave maths off the curriculum. It's just the most bizarrely, incomprehensibly weird thing to do.

I appreciate that I'm British and as a nation we do like humour more than most but if the book retail sites have a humour category, why have so many listings sites shunned it?

Please could you explain why, exactly it was left off. Not a vague catch all about limiting categories but something that actually explains the rationale? Are self help books really more abundant and better selling than funny books? Are spiritual and religious books worth more in the market than the works of Pratchett, Adams and Holt? And are we looking at world markets or just using the U.S. (which is very different to the other English speaking book markets) as a template for everyone.

If you're able to answer my questions it'd be fab.

Wanders away scratching head.

Greetings - we are new to goodreads (joined as authors) and have to admit this is one of the first groups we've come across that looked like it had potential for us.
Without going into details (some sites take offence!) we are into business books (some with a legal leaning others with a broader spread). Where would you list these - "self help?"
Will spend some more time wandering around other postings to learn more about you, especially to see how active the group is, since this string goes back a loooog way.