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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
So in short: YA is a message from Publishers to Retailers to shelve these books where they can be noticed by readers who may or may not be the right age to read them, and would probably notice them had they been shelved in the standard genre stacks they were already used to perusing for new material anyway (what with being "readers" and all). That about the gist?  |
100%.
Meanwhile, actual labels that have meaning and would help move the books like "cozy mystery" "paranormal romance", "tough guy action" get ignored and subsumed into the broader categories. Even "technothrillers" is getting deprecated these days.
Par for the business.
Time to "move alobg, move along", right?