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Article: YA biblio-bullish trends: the sand in the oyster.(young adult books)(Industry Overview)
- Article from:
- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Returning home with a fresh perspective from a long research trip in Europe, I am interested to see that young adult literature has also been traveling in some healthy new directions. Not only are review copies of hardcover YA fiction arriving at my desk in unprecedented quantities from both established houses and new publishers like Roaring Brook and Bloomsbury, but a number of distinctive paperback imprints further demonstrate that publishers are feeling bullish about the YA market.
Oddly enough, the prototype for these new imprints, HarperTempest, was begun in 1999 for the opposite reason. At that time young adult publishing was in trouble. Avon, in an effort ...