Keep this in mind the next time you see the claim that men hardly read compared to women. If you look at the sales numbers, women are mostly reading porn like harlequin romances, 50 shades, and the stuff from the video. And that's not even getting into the bizarre fanfiction they're into. Men, on the other hand, will simply watch a video instead of spending hours reading paperback porn.
The ratio of male to female readers probably balances out to about even if you didn't count smut or YA. The amount of women that read romance and exclusively YA books makes up most of the reading market.
You can trace a direct line from the popularity of Harry Potter to the demise of YA. Not that Harry Potter was girl power romance slock but it created a whole generation of readers who only would read YA and then it became twilight and the hunger games.
Keep this in mind the next time you see the claim that men hardly read compared to women. If you look at the sales numbers, women are mostly reading porn like harlequin romances, 50 shades, and the stuff from the video. And that's not even getting into the bizarre fanfiction they're into. Men, on the other hand, will simply watch a video instead of spending hours reading paperback porn.
The ratio of male to female readers probably balances out to about even if you didn't count smut or YA. The amount of women that read romance and exclusively YA books makes up most of the reading market.
Women destroyed YA. You no longer get engaging and sometimes gritty stories. Instead it's girl power romance slock
You can trace a direct line from the popularity of Harry Potter to the demise of YA. Not that Harry Potter was girl power romance slock but it created a whole generation of readers who only would read YA and then it became twilight and the hunger games.
I honestly don't think you can blame Harry Potter. I'd say that Hunger Games is almost solely responsible because of the clones it spawned