Who Buys Young Adult Fiction and personal productivity

Who Buys Young Adult Fiction?

1/30/2016

Did you know that "80% of YA novels are now purchased by adults, with the vast majority of those purchases being for the adults themselves"? What Can Data Tell Us?: An Agent's Thoughts on the 2015 Nielsen Children's Book Summit by Stephen Barbara is an interesting look at publishing data and its implications.

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Marcia Strykowski link

1/30/2016 06:08:00 pm

I love to read YA (and also MG). It's surprising how many people (mostly women) come into the library for a particular popular book and then feel embarrassed to learn it is a YA book. I always tell them: 'we all read YA!'

Yvonne V link

1/30/2016 07:50:07 pm

True, Marcia!

Pempi link

1/31/2016 04:03:34 am

Young adult fiction is often just that little bit more exciting, don't you find? It also reminds us of our youth and helps keep me in touch with what life is like for the younger generation today :) I think this is quite important for anyone involved in teaching. Everyone should read a bit of YA - it's too good to miss!

Yvonne V link

1/31/2016 11:50:33 am

Pempi -- I love all of these points!

Marni link

1/31/2016 07:14:04 am

I am 46 and I am a huge reader of YA fiction. I find the stories more interesting, the characters more likable and you don't have three pages describing a particular scene. I read a lot of dystopia and very little romance and when there is a romance involved, its not over the top.

Yvonne V link

1/31/2016 11:53:16 am

Marni -- True! I think you hit on a lot of the reasons for adults reading YA.

Liz A. link

1/31/2016 02:59:49 pm

Not too long ago there was something floating around the internet about adults reading YA, and it wasn't too complimentary. I'll pick up a YA book now and again. I tend to keep to more adult fare usually, but I have nothing against a good YA book if it piques my interest. (Or an MG book for that matter.)

Yvonne V link

1/31/2016 03:27:55 pm

I enjoy MG as well, like Wonder.

Patricia Lynne

1/31/2016 07:33:04 pm

I used to read a lot of YA, but haven't read much lately. I HATEHATEHATE love triangles and since that the latest trend, I have been avoiding YAs.

Yvonne V link

1/31/2016 09:31:02 pm

You need an anti-triangle list. :)

C. Lee McKenzie

2/1/2016 03:01:38 pm

Let's put one of those together! :-)

C. Lee McKenzie

2/1/2016 03:02:54 pm

This was the biggest surprise I had when I started writing YA. I expected teen readers, and suddenly grandmothers were writing to me, telling me they read my books.

Yvonne V link

2/1/2016 06:08:13 pm

I know, right? Pandemic has done well with senior citizens.

Spacerguy link

2/1/2016 04:54:32 pm

I expect Data could tell us a lot. He has the memory capacity of 800 quadrillion bits and a total linear computational speed rate of 60 trillion operations per second but seriously... what would he write and for whom?

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