I was told -- ages ago -- that it was because of the readers; the readers get upset about the inaccuracies, being young. I then asked why it was that there was an expected switchover, and adult readers weren't supposed to, say, be outraged at the first cover of Octavia Butler's DAWN (white woman in lab coat. Wrong, wrong, wrong. In so many ways).
I never really got a great answer; I got a "adults realize there's no real truth in advertising" but "kids don't". Errr. Okay. The kids don't part in theory might have caused the traumatized or annoyed kids to truly dislike or feel conflicted about the book.
But in many ways, YA is different. If you get glowing reviews, you frequently get sales -- library sales, school sales, etc. Which means there's still some correlation (not, of course, 100%) between a good book and good sales.
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Date: 2004-07-31 09:41 am (UTC)I never really got a great answer; I got a "adults realize there's no real truth in advertising" but "kids don't". Errr. Okay. The kids don't part in theory might have caused the traumatized or annoyed kids to truly dislike or feel conflicted about the book.
But in many ways, YA is different. If you get glowing reviews, you frequently get sales -- library sales, school sales, etc. Which means there's still some correlation (not, of course, 100%) between a good book and good sales.