Why is there such a heavy preponderance of fantasy titles among the most
owned? I know Harry Potter is popular, but what about bestselling authors
like Danielle Steele? Do you know if the site designer first announced
the site on fantasy lists and thus gained an early preponderance of
fantasy readers?
Fran
Lavolta Press
I think--and I'm just speculating here--that perhaps SCA-Fi fantasy fiction
readers tend to hang onto their books longer. I am not a romance reader--to
me, IF I read a Danielle Steele book, it would be a once-only type of book.
(And I'd be pretty desperate for reading material.)Whereas, Silverlock, for
instance, I can read over and over--and you have to re-read all the Harry
Potter books to prepare for the release of the new one, so it makes sense to
collect them...And I'd clobber anyone who suggested I get rid of Queen
Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd.
To make yet another sweeping generalization, the vast majority of the people
I know who are passionate about books tend to be costumers and Scadians, and
those people tend to lean more toward that end of the fiction-reading
spectrum. My non-SCA friends tend to wonder why on earth anyone would have
so many books.
Dianne
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