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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because they hit the spot for their target market - teenage girls. There's very little connection between good writing and commercial success.
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Twilight (just the first book) has (according to Wikipedia) sold more than 17 million copies to date. Its huge success (even before the movies) is, as far as I know, largely due to the fact that it became popular even outside its target "young adult" audience. I know for a certainty that it has been enjoyed by many who are not teenage girls - such an assertion severely underrates and understates the books popularity. (That is essentially the same as claiming the Harry Potter series only did so well because kids loved it.)
You say there is no connection between good writing and popularity ... but how can this be so? Isn't popularity a reasonable measure of how accessible readers find the book?