Adult fans

[Brian]

  I've seen a number of things advertised as being "for the whole 
family" of which means that they are only for kids.  Yet Harry Potter 
goes beyond such labeling as I do not see them as "kids books" yet 
instead books about kids that kids can enjoy as well as anyone, of 
any age.  At 44, I sometimes get funny looks from people when I 
mention that I am a "Harry Potter fanatic" yet all the while I seem 
to peak their curiosity and will possibly read the books for 
themselves.

  One thing that I did not see in the article is the demographic done 
recently by Scholastic that mentioned as of January of this year, 50% 
of Harry Potter's reader are 35 and over (finally, I fit in 
somewhere!!).

  Brian:-)   





--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> How about this article about adult fans of HP?
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2975466.stm
> 
> Do the quoted comments from Joel Rickett sound as much 
> beside-the-point to the rest of you as to me?  I do see the 
nostalgia 
> trend going on in our culture, but it has nothing to do with why I 
> first started liking HP or why I keep reading the books over and 
over.
> 
> Then at the end, the writer cites that the children's versions are 
> selling at a rate ten times that of the adult versions as if this 
was 
> telling.  How can you draw any conclusions from that, though?  How 
> many adult fans have children and just buy the one (children's 
cover) 
> version?
> 
> I live in the US, and we didn't even have any other covers until 
more 
> recently, but I wouldn't bother with them so our purchases would 
> always be listed under the "children's" column.
> 
> On a related note, I was also shaking my head over the odd item in 
the 
> press that I would notice last year, that sales of HP books were 
> falling.  Well, OF COURSE THEY WERE!  EXACTLY WHAT WAS THERE LEFT 
TO 
> BUY???  ::stops to take deep breaths::  That would be like 
printing, 
> in Autumn, that the leaves were myseriously drying up and falling 
off 
> the trees (with the implication that there might be some *disease* 
> spreading among them)!
> 
> Annemehr
> who can certainly believe that JKR  could come up with Rita Skeeter 
> *before* she became "news".