tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9185732430097424216.post6381225410448774900..comments2023-06-05T04:33:40.353-05:00Comments on The Misfits' Book Club: The YA market in 2008Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07813657502896772071noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9185732430097424216.post-23505570336296307322008-01-31T19:32:00.000-06:002008-01-31T19:32:00.000-06:00when i get a chance, i want to ask my editor and m...when i get a chance, i want to ask my editor and my agent about this. they might have some hard facts about what has changed in the last 15-20 years marketing-wise, and they might be able to explain to me why i didn't know about current YA when i was a YA. it strikes me that one explanation is that there wasn't the strip mall book store culture then that there is now-- b&n, for example, only became an enormously phenomenon recently, didn't it? there were some independent bookstores where i grew up, but i rarely went to them...kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06303267756190738339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9185732430097424216.post-51865916042397170752008-01-31T14:04:00.000-06:002008-01-31T14:04:00.000-06:00This is an excellent question! And sadly, one I h...This is an excellent question! And sadly, one I have no answer to. I'm struck at the moment, however, by how little our students (mainly 18-22 year olds) read "for fun." I know they're often stretched to the max with course work and other obligations, but it rarely occurs to them to think of our library as a place to find leisure reading. A sharp contrast to working in a public library! We keep talking about ways to highlight our literature collection, but just the other day I put out a display from our rotating collection, which contains current, popular books. At the public library, I would have had to struggle to keep up with the display. At the college library, it barely gets touched. One of the books had been checked out yesterday and I wanted to throw a party. <BR/><BR/>So I guess there's also the question of how much leisure reading people do in general. There've been a couple of interesting reports out recently about the level of reading among Americans - I'm thinking mainly of the NEA report - and while there are some issues with the NEA data themselves, the study does raise the question of how much people read in general. Hm. So those are my random thoughts. Can you tell I'm in the middle of spinning a research project out of the random thoughts??Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13327156658777127238noreply@blogger.com