We can’t say for sure. What we can say is that in the first three quarters of 2014, sales of young-adult books have skyrocketed, soaring 22.4 percent compared to 2013, according to Media Bistro.
The success of YA-oriented books helped propel overall book sales to a nearly 5 percent increase, but if you subtract YA books from the mix, fiction and non-fiction sales for adults declined 3.3 percent.
Sounds as if maybe kids should start nagging their parents to pick up a book. (Time)
Paul Asay has written for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for PluggedIn and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He recently collaborated with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, on his book The Good Dad. He lives in Colorado Springs with wife, Wendy, and his two children. Check out his entertainment blog at or follow him on Twitter.