What do the high reprint figures for children's and young adult books tell us?
Childhood is the season of reading stories. Stories that are sometimes told by elders and sometimes in the sweet language of books.The eighteenth of Tir (June–July) has been designated as Children's and Young Adult Literature Day. Children's and young adult is an always-popular genre in fiction. In the chart above, we see the difference between the number of first editions and second printings of books on various subjects. According to this chart, among 12 genres, children's and young adult is the fifth genre in terms of the number of first editions. But in terms of second printings or reprints, it ranks second after supplementary educational books.
This means that reception of children's and young adult works is greater than for other genres. It may also be that readers in this genre trust new titles less, but the reprint figures show that demand for children's and young adult books is very high.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian