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I have understood some drop in fiction book sales to be caused by the wind-up of the Harry Potter series in 2007. A 2011 article from The Guardian (Datablog sec
by galeforcewinds 9y ago
I have understood some drop in fiction book sales to be caused by the wind-up of the Harry Potter series in 2007. A 2011 article from The Guardian (Datablog section, author uncredited) linked to this spreadsheet of Harry Potter book sales numbers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C6QriM1aMBd5Ab6Tn7hn2SzrveVnw0-u4pabuj-nP80/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C6QriM1aMBd5Ab6Tn7hn...
Is Rowling's Potter part of Literary Fiction? The report states "We therefore leave the definition of what literary fiction is, open. [...] What it definitely is
not, for our purposes, is poetry or plays. We are looking at fiction." Which causes me to believe it does fall within their definition.
- axedwool 9y ago"Literary fiction" is a category used in the publishing world to contrast "genre fiction". A publisher would consider Harry Potter genre fiction of some kind, whether in fantasy or young adult. I think it would be quite strange if it were included in the survey.
- pessimizer 9y agoLiterary fiction as opposed to genre fiction. Literary fiction consists of pointless books about the middle class, by the middle class; genre fiction is everything else.
- axedwool 9y agoHey, let's be fair. Sometimes they're resentful books about the upper class, by the middle class.
- igravious 9y agoHere's a quote from a bestselling non-fiction work, “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.”
- ci5er 9y agoI'm not sure that the Jubilee Bible was best selling.
- malloryerik 9y agoGabriel Garcia Marquez, Dostoevsky, Hermann Hesse, Charlotte Bronte, Albert Camus, Philip Roth, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Cervantes, Hemingway, George Orwell, JD Salinger, Bret Easton Ellis, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, (arguably) Homer, Goethe, Harper Lee, and on and on... isn't this is all "literary fiction"?