Indie Booksellers Respond to Pulitzer Fiction Snub

There was no Pulitzer Prize for fiction awarded this year, a shock and disappointment to independent booksellers around the country.

  1. In the absence of a Pulitzer, Sarah awards the first annual Sarah McNallitzer to The Great Night and @mat_johnson's Pym wnyc.org/shows/bl/2012/…
  2. Bookstore owner and author Ann Patchett wrote an essay for the New York Times...
  3. Well, now I'm sold out of the Pulitzer prize winner. In poetry. #thanksjudges
  4. Feel like Darth Bookseller right now. "I find your lack of prize disturbing."
  5. Here's my theory. The Pulitzer judges were TOTALLY gonna choose a winner. But they got caught up reading "Fifty Shades of Grey," and, well..
  6. Seriously, Pulitzer jury? You couldn't pick 1 freaking book out of all of the amazing novels and short story collections published in 2011?!
  7. Gotta say, I am pretty disappointed by this. I know several folks, including Desi here at the store, who were big... fb.me/1GMXJbfl6
  8. In which no fiction writer wins a Pulitzer, yet the Huffington Post does... http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/us-news-blog/2012/apr/16/pulitzer-prize-2012-winners-list?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fmedia%2Frss+%28Media%29
  9. from an in-store perspective, depends on the title. I don't really see the #Pulitzer substantially boosting sales for those 3 #indieview
  10. There was no Pulitzer prize for fiction this year - just three finalists. nyti.ms/HPB1da So let's declare our own winner.
  11. Which of these Pulitzer finalists has your vote? The Pale King, Swamplandia!, or Train Dreams? #Strandpoll
  12. No #Pulitzer for fiction means go to an independent bookstore & ask a bookseller for a recommendation.
  13. Sadly one of the big losers in the lack of a fiction Pulitzer winner is bookstores, who would have sold oodles of the winner's novel.
  14. No fiction Pulitzer isn't indictment of novels—indictment of novel marketing. No reviews, no store promos. No attention mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/pul…

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