KJ Charles

An excellent thread on special editions, but holy wow, this line: "Sales are what romance gets *instead* of importance." YEP

Olivia Waite

The exception is: romance. Romance sales numbers are not permitted to measure importance. When multiauthor romance box sets started to dominate the NYT bestseller list in the early ebook era, they *changed the rules of the list* to exclude them. Sales are what romance gets *instead* of importance.