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Producing young adult literature in the 21st century

The book publishing industry experienced a period of drastic change
during the final decades of the twentieth century. Small publishing companies
consolidated and were purchased by large, profit-minded media conglomerates.
The widespread adoption of digital media technologies prompted many questions
about the very future of the book itself. Yet at the pinnacle of these changes, the
American young adult publishing market gradually began to experience not a
decline, but a renaissance. In this report, I explore ways that changes in book
publishing have manifested themselves in contemporary young adult literature
through two case studies. Are today’s young adult books works of literature or
commercial products? Is their increased popularity due to widening readership
or more savvy marketing? Are the companies producing them more concerned
with the public good or their own profit margins? / text

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6103
Date27 November 2012
CreatorsAppell, Stephanie Ann
Source SetsUniversity of Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typethesis
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