Soon there was a trend in book-to-film franchises for children and young adults. Even excluding Harry Potter, sales of children’s books started to grow as publishers invested more in new writers and in crossover books read by both children and adults. The publishing sensation that followed is credited with getting children back into reading. When Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone came out (having famously first been rejected by a dozen publishers), the children’s book publishing industry was in decline, as was the adult fantasy book market.
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