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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
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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@molo
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”?
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@vgr
Most readers of “young adult” fiction are in fact much older
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Travis A. Everett
@abathur
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.
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@0xbrandon
I thing it’s because if you call it adult fiction people think of 50 shades stuff 😂 so anything for youth and adults get categorized as young adult fiction… this is just an assumption lol
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