Led by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, Вампиры devoured USA TODAY's Best-Selling Книги Список in 2009.
For the секунда год in a row, Meyer swept the вверх four spots. No other Автор — 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 Список of the year's 100 most Популярное books.
"Meyer had an Невероятное impact," says Michael Norris, Книги 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 еще to come — has turned "the YA (young adult) category into the PG-13 of books," he says. "She's not just read by tweens and teens, but by a lot of 30-year-old women."
No matter who's Чтение them, Книги 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.
