More about TBT in today's NYT

On July 20, in a comment to the post below, I mentioned an article by Margo Raab in the NYT book review section about Y.A., Young Adult fiction. Today, the Times ran four letters to the editor about the Raab article, including this one:

To the Editor:

Rabb’s essay clearly illustrates one of the challenges that we booksellers face every day in helping books to find their readers. My favorite example is Markus Zusak’s “Book Thief,” a gorgeous novel to which everyone should have access, but which is relegated to the last shelf (Z) of young adult fiction. Our in-store book group reluctantly agreed to read it and fell in love, but the casual reader won’t find it or won’t consider it because of the Y.A. classification. Special “book group editions” of selected Y.A. titles would greatly increase the audience for those special books that cross the age divide.

Kristine Williams
Encino, Calif.
The writer is the community relations manager of Barnes & Noble Encino.

Pam