Les tendances aux Etats Unis

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Trouvé sur le net ce matin un petit article en anglais sur ce que les lecteurs lisent dans les librairies comme Barnes and Noble.

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Frank Weimann, agent and president of The Literary Group International, notes that humor and satire have, in recent months, been very good movers. "Lately," he says, "The general public has been pretty beat up by the economy, and they want to read something that's funny. They've also been moving toward inspirational and escapist books, for similar reasons."

Publishers agree that genres such as action and horror are constant movers, as are paperback science-fiction and fantasy novels. Since the 1960s, sci-fi has been the most consistently successful genre, gaining momentum whenever a new blockbuster science-fiction film debuts."

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""My work stays fairly constant," says one independent literary editor we spoke to. "My clientele is usually offering me similar material, year after year. Right now, I'm receiving more fantasy, erotica, and young adult -- 'Gossip Girl'-like books -- but I don't necessarily believe it's a trend."

Whatever the changes, readers can always count on something old and something new filtering through agents, publishers, and their local booksellers. Next month, there will be a new "it" author, but the classics and standbys certainly aren't going anywhere -- and neither are those books with Fabio on their covers."