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[livejournal.com profile] fashionista_35 asked this question in general with lots of awards, but I wanted to ask it specifically with the big SF/F genre awards because I am endlessly fascinated by the things that shape people's buying habits, negatively or positively.

So here's the question:

Does seeing that a book is a Nebula/Huga/World Fantasy nominee or winner make you more likely to read and/or buy that book? Does it have any effect on your reading/book buying habits at all?

Date: 2009-05-28 12:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com
No.

Tiptree, though, yes.

Date: 2009-05-28 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kara-gnome.livejournal.com
Yes. (Hugo, btw, after Hugo Gernsback :)

Date: 2009-05-28 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] takumashii.livejournal.com
Marginally. A Hugo/Nebula winner or nominee with subject matter that interests me and no super-hard science or really weird stuff is an easy sell for me. I've had very good luck with World Fantasy awards, but a lot of the time what's nominated for the Hugos and Nebulas interests me not at all.

Date: 2009-05-28 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ithiliana.livejournal.com
Nope--in fact, I barely track them at all. (More of the books I have bought and loved are on the Tiptree List than the other awards!)

Date: 2009-05-28 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyslvr.livejournal.com
No.

Except, one of my to-do list items is to read all the past Hugo award winning novels that I haven't already read. So, someday it will affect my buying habits.

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