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[theweaselking]

Why you won't get a full copy of all the nominated books in his year's Hugo packet

The ENTIRE Wheel Of Time, yes. The other three Best Novel nominees, no.

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[torrain.livejournal.com]

A point! Although I will note that locally, the library currently has 20 holds on 6 copies of Parasite (plus an ebook and an audiobook copy), 16 holds on 5 copies of Ancillary Justice, and 4 holds on 4 copies of Neptune's Brood. (Also 9 holds on 3 copies of Warbound, which I think is the non-Orbit book.)

This is low enough to remind me exactly how niche the Hugos are--for comparison, Gone Girl currently has 743 holds (on 99 copies! Jesus! and 167 holds on 8 large-print copies!)--and is honestly the kind of thing you can expect to clear up in a few weeks at most.

I'm not saying the library thing is always going to be the same as here, or that it wouldn't be awesome to give people a chance to read them all ETA: in time to vote--that's a really good point. Just saying that I don't think sales loss as a result of this decision is likely to be significant or relevant to the publishers.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

We also live in a place with a large, well-supplied library.

(Yes, I know those adjectives applied to OUR library will likely make you weep for the species. The species needs some weeping! But we still have a strong specimin of it.)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Weeping SO HARD.