About time. Vaguely embarrassing for humanity that books for children were so strongly dominating adult reading. https://nathanbransford.com/blog/2023/03/why-are-ya-sales-declining-this-week-in-books

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I’m confused how you get that YA books took up market share from adult readers. Seems like a relatively straightforward news that “teens aren’t reading books as much”?

Most readers of “young adult” fiction are in fact much older

My intuition is that the market for non-pulpy/-airport fiction is minimal and skews ~writerly (which as an MFA in writing I suspect is a vicious cycle) with thinning opportunity for success rockets. 

A big YA book (or series) can still crush it in the market, so there are concordant network effects.