Why Men’s Fiction Is Suffering From A Great Decline
By Bryan Paul Rouleau
http://www.returnofkings.com/42403/the-d...ns-fiction
It is estimated that men account for only 20% of the fiction-reading market. In other words, women almost completely dominate the fiction-reading market. They buy and read the most books by a large majority. If it were a presidential election, it would be called a landslide.
In the article linked above, the British author Ian McEwan conducted an experiment where he opted to give away free books to lunchtime crowds in a London park. He gave away thirty books, the vast majority of which were claimed by women. The men reacted to his offer negatively, often frowning, “in suspicion, or distaste.”
Look at this list of Barnes and Noble 2014 Best Sellers. On the first page, 16 of the 20 top books, judging simply by cover design, appear to be targeting a female audience. The books that are clearly targeting males? Game of Thrones and the new Stephen King book; both of which have such a popularity as to attract both male and female attention equally. Setting those two aside, men are given a book about the New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera and a Rush Limbaugh book about Paul Revere. That is, two non-fiction books.
http://www.returnofkings.com/35173/on-th...on-writing
FWIW I just noticed that with only 27 posts this topic has 78,664 views putting it in the top 25 most viewed game topics on RVF... my reading indicates that 50 Shades now has over 100 Million copies sold so I posted the recent fiction posts on RVF and maintain that understanding the business side of this phenomena has serious business merit.
As I am tired of being called a shill by the business strategy and fiction challenged fellows on RVF shoot me any ideas or questions you might like to have answered on this topic specifically and I will write up a classic DeepDiver Data Sheet and share with those that PM me - the objective is to come up with titles and topics that give the snowflakes tingles and make our jeans just jingle... as in KA CHING.
If you can not stomach the idea of reading the literary masterpiece of mommy porn 50 shades - here are its cliff notes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shade...rey_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._James ...Proof you do not have to be a 10 to make a Billion USD (or is it GBP)...