![]() ![]() In 2012, the Pulitzer jury could not agree on an award in fiction. These economies only really tend to intersect at literary prize time, when the stamp of a prestigious prize on a book cover can persuade a bookstore browser to pick something up that they might otherwise have passed over.Īnd when these prizes, particularly the Pulitzer, fall down on that job, novelists are usually quick to remind them of the role. There are, as the critic Laura Miller has often said, two economies at work in book publishing: (1) the prestige economy, which is where the awards and the Reviews of Books come in and (2) the sales economy, which is where most of the paperback thrillers live. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book. ![]() Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. ![]() But book awards, in America at least, are not like the Oscars. ![]()
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