Exactly. It just betrays an enormous and mean-spirited ignorance about the industry.

Tl;dr YA literature is not keeping you from getting an agent or selling your work, booboo. Pull your head out of 2014 and go work on your opening pages.

Adult is also getting paid *more* across the board. This graph uses publishing jargon to codify deal amounts, but Good = $100k-$249k, Significant = $250-$499k, Major = $500k+. You can see how few of those deals are going to Children’s, again, compared to Adult Fiction/Nonfic.

As of the second quarter of 2024, Adult Fiction and Nonfiction are each solidly outpacing the *entirety* of deals for Children’s books, of which, again, YA is a subset.

And I don’t mean that anecdotally. Per the Association of American Publishers, in 2023, Adult Fiction sales alone comprised more of the trade market (35.6%) than the entirety of Children’s Fiction and Nonfiction combined (29.3%). YA is a subset of the Children’s sales.

Ooh I didn't consider the library sales!!

NGL, there was a little bit of a slot machine thrill to walking down to the local goodwill and seeing if they had any gems in the DVD section. And of course, the smugness of showing a friend I'd bought Ocean's 11 for $2.99 when it cost the same to rent once online? INCOMPARABLE

Having war flashbacks to geometry right now in fact!

Exactly. For all his talking points about trusting "common sense" over experts, Vance ultimately came off as an exhausting debate pervert while Walz presented himself as an everyman dealing with his extremely online nephew

This could absolutely be my bias, but I think Vance's style would appeal to millennials if he wasn't bullshitting about events we all still remember, whereas Walz spoke to realities for gen x/boomer voters.