True - but it's not entirely clear to me what their job was and how much they influenced the nominations, since they definitely narrowed the list down from the many thousands of nominations to the two hundred-some short list. I know part of it was the number of times something was nominated, but I don't really know how much they could then change the list around.

And regardless, part of their job was also to decide what counted as "young adult" and "horror" and "paranormal romance" therefore would be removed from their list, and given the make-up of the young adult and paranormal romance markets in particular I am ... intrigued by what they left on (Xanth, Ender's Game, Frankenstein, The Stand) and what they kicked off (Harry Potter, Earthsea, and Twilight explicitly, and probably a lot of other stuff without mentioning it).