Non-fiction is just that, not fake. That means the book has to be 100% true. However, if every story that was non-fiction was 100% true, they would more often than not be boring. People who read non-fiction need to understand that even non-fiction pieces of writing have characteristics of fiction.
Non-fiction, however, shouldn't be less than 98% true. This is to keep the fiction and non-fiction titles as far from each other as possible as to avoid any grey area that could lead a book to be either fiction or non-fiction.
Fiction is far different from non-fiction. Fiction is a genre with a different purpose all together. Non-fiction must be more factual than un-factual to ensure its purpose is kept, or else it can become fiction. Telling a non-fiction story with SOME fictional details is okay, however telling a non-fiction story with more made up things and events changes the genre to fiction.
When labeling genres, it's important to label them correctly. In fact, the labeling of genera's is important in and of itself. This is due to the fact that people like to know what they are getting themselves into when they read a book. They also like to have a direction as to where to look for books that they might like.
For example, if someone walks into a book store with all the genera's mixed together, that person wouldn't know where to start and would likely just walk out of the book store after a few minutes trying to go through every single book. Searching through the shelves without a place to start will enhance the dreaded judging of a book by its cover because the reader wouldn't have the patience to open each book in order to find out if they would like it.
However, a book store with genera's separated allows the reader to go to one smaller section of books they could potentially walk out of the store with and read.
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