Adults aged between 30 and 44 accounted for 28% of all YA sales, and the books are purchased for their own reading the vast majority of the time. The first film premiered in March 2012, driving Collins to sell 27.7 million copies that year.įull List: The World’s Top-Earning Authorsĭespite its PG-rated fun, YA stories are widely read by grown ups. A 2012 Bowker Market Research study suggested 55% of YA books are bought by people 18 and older.

'Once the movie comes and goes, we are still able to sell strongly as we do now with the Hunger Games,' Berger continued.ĭivergent's dystopian action series with a strong female lead predecessor, Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy, clocked a total of $2.3 billion at the global box office. According to Berger, publishers can see more than a 10% lift in book sales around the time a movie version is released. 'When a great book finds a new life on the big screen, it drives people who have never discovered them from movies to the books,' explained Berger.

The eight Harry Potter movies generated a cumulative $7.2 billion in cinema ticket sales between 20 and introduced a younger audience to the stories, the first of which was published in 1997. The wizarding series' final film installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, is the fourth-largest grossing movie of all time, pulling in $1.34 billion at the global box office. 'The scale of Harry Potter was unprecedented,' recalls Ellie Berger, president of Trade Publishing at Scholastic, the house that published J.K. Before blood suckers and cancer-stricken youths swarmed the silver screen, it was a young wizard named Harry who proved the power of YA film adaptations.

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