[Rob B]

Some more rule clarifications right here:

Each voting cycle only one book per author. For example, the May nomations contained two books by David Gemmell, so we will only be allowing one of the books in the poll.

Also considering raising the number of nominations to THREE. For May we have 4 books with more than 2 nominations and 4 with only 2 nominations.

While the poll allows for 10 possible options, that may a bit much. I'm considering for the purposes of the book clubs, we should keep it at 5 (after the May voting). Any other thoughts?

[Sammie]

I think if we revise the number of nominations to three, we'll probably find that the number of books in the poll self-limits to four or five. I say, give that a trial period, if the number of books going in is still to high (or turns out to be too low) then we can revise it for the following month.

Agree that each author should only get one book per poll. About the 'reading another book by an author we already did' issue, though - if people don't want to read the book, it won't get voted for anyway....i don't see the problem, personally. The selection process is totally democratic atm - seems a shame to go imposing random rules on it on the whims of a handful of members. Just a thought...

[fluffy bunny]

I'd say if you stuck 3 nominations for the fantasy section, leave it at 2 for the science fiction section (less people there at the mo)

[Rob B]

About the 'reading another book by an author we already did' issue, though - if people don't want to read the book, it won't get voted for anyway....i don't see the problem, Wasn't saying we should disallow another book by the same author, just that to keep the selection varied we should keep a fair time frame.

Next month's Fantasy poll (June) will require 3 nominations.

Science Fiction is still fairly new and not quite as visited as the fantasy forum.

[Sammie]

Sounds fair :)

[Jacquin]

Would it be possible to post up a list of all the books that have been "Book of the month" and make it sticky, it would be simple enough for one fo the mods to update every month.

That way those of us who haven't been here regularly will know if the book we want to nominate has already been done.

Ta

J

[Sammie]

Done! (http://www.sffworld.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5560) :D

[Rob B]

One thing I was considering, in terms of ammending the rules, is that the book with the second highest vote total automatically receives entry in the next month's poll.

[Sammie]

Hmm...am inclined to think that if the interest was still there then it would be nominated anyway....

Not sure.....

[DragonReader]

I am new to the book club and was wondering when nominating is there any rule that something must be available in paperback or are hardcovers ok?

Just wanted to check.

Thanks!