From: Aline Pereira <aline_at_papertigers.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:10:43 -0700

I'd like to point you all to an interesting article called "Sharing the Love: How Publishers are Re-branding Adult Fiction for Young Readers." It was written in 2006, about the Canadian market, but the ideas it explores of how young readers are becoming more sophisticated, how YA books are displayed in bookstores, etc are also

relevant to us:



Below are some thought-provoking quotes from the article. They echo what have already been expressed in this forum by others:

"Young readers always want to be reading something that’s slightly beyond their experience – whether in terms of situations, themes, structure or language. Ultimately, the growing intersection of readerships reflects the fact that young readers are becoming more sophisticated." "If there’s a pattern to the most successful crossover titles, it’s

that none were officially anointed as such."

"It’s the person themselves who makes the decision: 'Am I a reader of

young adult fiction or am I young reader of adult fiction?' "


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