Led da Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, Vampiri#From Dracula to Buffy... and all creatures of the night in between. devoured USA TODAY's Best-Selling libri lista in 2009.
For the secondo anno in a row, Meyer swept the superiore, in alto four spots. No other autore — not even J. K. Rowling— has done that in the list's 16-year history.
Meyer's coattails pulled 16 other vampire titles onto the lista of the year's 100 most popolare books.
"Meyer had an Unbelievable impact," says Michael Norris, libri analyst for Simba Information, a market-research firm. He wonders what publishers will do when what he calls " 'the vampire industrial average' falls. Every cycle has an end."
But for now, Meyer — who has also benefited from Twilight movie adaptations, with più to come — has turned "the YA (young adult) category into the PG-13 of books," he says. "She's not just read da tweens and teens, but da a lot of 30-year-old women."
No matter who's Leggere them, libri for kids and teens accounted for 29% of sales tracked in 2009 — the highest percentage in the list's history, up from 28% in 2008 and 22% in 2007.
