People's Book Awards?

I've always been apprehensive of book awards. Some authors that win big national awards probably shouldn't, and those that should, don't. I thought Stephen King deserved the American Letters Award and many literary writers panned it. I think William T. Vollmann should win the National Book Award and he hasn't (yet). So, I'm not surprised that the Quills haven't been as much play as their creators thought they would. Do people really care about voting for book awards? This isn't American Idol or any other Vote-The-Idiot-Off-The-Show diatribe. These are books. Let the readers enjoy and the metamorphosis occur.

Stephen King might disagree:

"The people who speak out, speak out because they are passionate about the book, about the word, about the page and, in that sense, we're all brothers and sisters. Give yourself a hand."