dialyn opened this issue on Sep 21, 2003 ยท 10 posts
dialyn posted Mon, 22 September 2003 at 11:44 AM
Attached Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/135224851_librarian10.html
The Harry Potter series has been the single most influential children's books for getting kids back to reading, which is no bad thing. What is a little sad is some of the children only want to read Harry Potter and have not discovered other authors. I hope that doesn't continue as a trend. My brother goes to the comic book store to buy my CSI graphic novels and, most recently, he told the owner about the librarian action doll. The owner responded that she wanted to get the dolls in the store because she thought her female clients would be interested and find it a fun idea (I'm not going to go into how horrified some librarians are at this item becoming popular because of the stereotyping involved). It turns out that she has a growing number of older female customers who are seeking out romance novels in the graphic format. Writer/artists, pay attention to trends. There is a growing market here that is outside the comic book superhero kind of thing. I thought it was interesting.