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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 310045" data-attributes="member: 1">Al (my travelling companion) works for a market research company and suggested an idea to me while we travelled from NY to Boston today.If there is a problem, then it's the market share issue.  So the resolution to the problem must address that - a mechanism which allows all publishers to compete on a level playing field.  In other words, a situation needs to be created whereby each of the five nominees has a "virtual" equal market share.Of course, this would be easy if we had everyone's sales figures.  An algorithm could be whipped up in a matter of minutes which nullified any advantage gained by market share.  However, we don't have those sales figures, and we never will.So we need to figure out market shares ourselves.  More precisely, we need only to figure out what the market share is amongst those who will be voting.  So we ask the voters.With a properly constructed survey, we could find out what each publisher's market share is within the limits of the EN World community.  We won't be able to find out what the real global market share is - but we don't need to know that.  We only need to know the proliferation of various pulishers' products amongst those who will be voting.It might take some work - "market share" has to be defined in this context (and do we count the number of people who have a book, who have seen a book, or who have heard of a book?).There are statistical anomalies that can crop up using a method such as this,   but Al tells me that there are various surveying techniques which can nullify the effect of such things.</blockquote>

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