Meg Cowley presents Is «New Adult» the new «Young Adult»
reader age category?
Not exact matches
For Pubslush's contest, participants upload a photo of their children to one of four different
age categories; a
category for classroom
readers is also open.
Quotes: In this
age of social sharing and nonstop marketing, this
category is a quick way to find great lines from a manuscript and put them before the eyes of potential
readers.
* Young Adult — Literary Agents Children's Books: This
category of children's book is for
readers age 12 - 17.
* Middle Grade — Literary Agents Children's Books: This children's book
category is for
readers ages 8 - 12, and the word count for a middle grade book is 20 - 40,000 words.
Publishing is defined by specialized
categories of book, which also identify
readers by
age, gender, interest, locale.
We also split Children's Picture Books into two
categories; one for young
readers, up to the
age of four, and the other for early
readers,
ages five to eight.
In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books
category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult
category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications
category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book
readers among adults
age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7
People between the
ages of 25 - 34 represented the highest share of
readers, accounting for 27.4 percent of newspaper consumers and 28.2 percent of magazine / periodical consumers, while people
age 35 - 44 accounted for 1 in 5
readers in both
categories.
Wednesday Books is a crossover, coming - of -
age imprint for
readers looking for books in and beyond the YA
category.
According to the ALSC Notable Children's Books Committee manual, these
categories loosely represent the following: Younger
Readers — Preschool - grade 2 (
age 7), including easy - to - read books; Middle
Readers — Grades 3 - 5,
ages 8 - 10; Older
Readers — Grades 6 - 8,
ages 11 - 14; All
Ages — Has appeal and interest for children in all of the above
age ranges
Mindy's travels have also taken her through various literary genres for
readers of all
ages — from traditional fantasy to paranormal chick - lit to
category romance, from middle - grade to young adult to adult.
Roaring Brook Press is a publisher of high - quality literature for young
readers of all
ages, from toddler to teen, and in all
categories: picture books, fiction, and nonfiction.
The growing appeal of young adult titles among older
readers has continued to bump up the
age of book buyers for titles in that
category.
Many other
categories of
readers are not able to use the printed books, newspapers, and magazines - including those with dyslexia, motor disabilities or
age - related macular degeneration.
Configurable search by ISBN, title, author, editor,
category, tags, language, source language, suggested
readers age, price
ONCE WE WERE KINGS (# 1 Bestseller Amazon.com in multiple
categories) is the legacy left to Mr. Alexander's children and the first in a series of epic fantasy novels which appeals to
readers ages 8 through 98.
Good interest so far from a number of
readers and I think the questions are balanced in a number of
categories (
age, PF, investing, etc).