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By Martha C. White Posted
Vampires are having their moment in, well, if not the sun, then certainly the Twilight. Author Stephenie Meyer's series of books about the romantic yearnings of an undead teen are the, uh, lifeblood of the book business these days. According to USA Today, one in every seven books sold in the United States in the first quarter of an otherwise dismal 2009 was one of the four Twilight stories. On Amazon.com, half of the top 10 is made up of Twilight. (Each of the four books holds a spot, and the collected series takes up another one.)....
Vampires are also enjoying a kind of pop culture vogue; in addition to Twilight, there's the Sookie Stackhouse series of graphic novels, written by Charlaine Harris, which have been turned into the HBO series True Blood. According to Simba Information's "Vampire Industrial Average," the number of best-seller titles featuring vampires has shot up from just seven in 2006 to 27 last year.
Read on http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/04/23/mother-suckers
1 comments:
What do they mean by "graphic novels"?. The serie about Sookie is definitely one consisting of novels.
And they're older than Twilight, so I wouldn't say "in addition to Twilight..."
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