But if you look at the sales reports for fiction ebooks, it appears they've been embraced by a rapidly
growing fiction market too.
Not exact matches
It was also excellent
marketing that drew in all the WOMEN who love space and rockets, who devour science
fiction, who flocked to all the Star Wars and Star Trek films when they were
growing up, who fought hard to be part of NASA's astronaut program, and on and on.
If you already have tens of thousands of followers, consistent
marketing for yourself as an expert, or if you're writing
fiction in a rapidly
growing genre (note: not vampire books, sorry).
Some surprising information from Nielsen Book Scan has showed that, not only has the young adult genre
grown by 24 % in the last year, but that 80 % of the
market for young adult
fiction is actually made up of adult readers.
According to the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group's annual survey, children and young adult
fiction have been the fastest
growing category of ebooks in a
market worth $ 2.8 billion US.
According to a report released this week by Chinese research firm iResearch, the
market for online literature —
fiction stories published on the internet — has
grown to 12.8 billion yuan ($ 1.96 billion) in 2017, up 32.1 % from the previous year.
We expect it will
grow in the non-
fiction genre while it is still primarily a
fiction bestseller dominated
market.
The digital publishing industry is
growing and the
market is ripe for both
fiction and non-
fiction -LSB-...]
Like the adult book
market, YA
fiction has countless varieties and popularity waxes and wanes — coming of age in a distinct time and / or culture (A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill A Mockingbird); drugs and gangs (Go Ask Alice, Rumblefish, The Outsiders), vampires and paranormal (the Twilight series), dystopian (the Hunger Games and Divergent series), contemporary (The Fault in Our Stars, Eleanor & Park).
And due to the rise in e-books and e-magazines, length is no longer an issue for publication, so there's a
growing market for short
fiction.
Generally speaking, first time
fiction authors without a known brand name do better on the lower pricing side of the
market, until they've
grown their catalogue to several books.