How Adults Took Over YA

By treating young adult fiction as a laboratory for professional-class moralizing, the publishing industry has effectively abandoned actual teens.

The Harry Potter books — which have sold hundreds of millions of copies since 1997, making author J. K. Rowling a billionaire — proved to publishers just how lucrative YA books could be. (Getty Images / Stringer)

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