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11th January 2012

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rachelfershleiser: haveyoumetmissjones: ilovecharts: A whole set of charts on LGBT YA books in the US. Awesome on #YAWednesday. I feel like this would be more useful if we knew what % of each publishers lists these numbers amounted to? It might be also interesting to note how this compares to publisher market share of total books sold. If a publisher controls 10% of the marketplace, but publishes 50% of the LGBT YA, I would find that interesting. That would indicate to me that a given publisher has made YA diversity a greater priority than their competitors. Michael Hyatt, former CEO of Thomas Nelson (which is now owned by HarperCollins, but as a Christian publisher whose list is primarily non-fiction probably doesn’t do a great deal of LGBT YA), published this breakdown of market share in 2009: I have zero knowledge about quantity of YA titles of all sorts published by any of these publishers of course. Either way, it looks like Simon & Schuster is publishing more than their share of the LGBT YA out there. Good job Simon!

rachelfershleiser:

haveyoumetmissjones:

ilovecharts:

A whole set of charts on LGBT YA books in the US.

Awesome on #YAWednesday.

I feel like this would be more useful if we knew what % of each publishers lists these numbers amounted to?

It might be also interesting to note how this compares to publisher market share of total books sold. If a publisher controls 10% of the marketplace, but publishes 50% of the LGBT YA, I would find that interesting. That would indicate to me that a given publisher has made YA diversity a greater priority than their competitors. Michael Hyatt, former CEO of Thomas Nelson (which is now owned by HarperCollins, but as a Christian publisher whose list is primarily non-fiction probably doesn’t do a great deal of LGBT YA), published this breakdown of market share in 2009:

Publisher Marketshare Michael Hyatt

I have zero knowledge about quantity of YA titles of all sorts published by any of these publishers of course. Either way, it looks like Simon & Schuster is publishing more than their share of the LGBT YA out there. Good job Simon!

Source: ilovecharts

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