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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 5044024" data-attributes="member: 2525">I have a friend who is a successful professional author.  He gets reports from his agent, who is a fairly well known agent, on a frequent basis.  He tells me science fiction and fantasy book sales are extremely down, and have been for quite some time, even before the recession.  Except for a handful of very popular books, like Harry Potter, the Twilight novels, take-off vampire stuff, and a couple of "gimmicky" type books like Sense, Sensibility and Seamonsters, the entire market for fiction seems to have really fallen on hard times.You can read more like that  <a href="http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2009/03/crisis-time.html" target="_blank">here</a>:"Crisis Time: Science fiction book sales are, except for established big-name authors, way down."More <a href="http://www.conversationalreading.com/2009/05/us-book-sales-down-20-percent.html" target="_blank">here</a>, on how bad sales are in 2009, and <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16435529" target="_blank">here</a> showing that all reading is down across the board in the U.S.."Fewer and fewer Americans are reading for pleasure. That's the conclusion of a study released today by the National Endowment for the Arts. It tracks a decline among Americans of all ages. Here are a couple of the most striking statistics. On average, Americans spend two hours a day watching television and seven minutes reading. And only one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers."</blockquote>

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