Libraries see surge in erotic book borrowing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26176870
"The borrowing of erotic fiction from UK public libraries has leapt by 500% over the past 12 months, in what is being called the "Fifty Shades" effect.
Last year's most popular erotic fiction title, Indigo Bloom's Destined to Feel, was borrowed almost 11,700 times."
It's not just the UK! I helped a patron with a catalog search for an erotic romance novel a while ago. The book wasn't in our academic library but I showed her how to search for the book in public library catalogs. Found it in 3 different formats without saying the title out loud so that she wouldn't feel self-conscious, smiled, and wished her a good day.
"One suggestion for the increase is that automated library checkouts might be helping borrowers avoid any embarrassment when taking such books out."
Snobbery directed toward genre fiction or 'popular histories' bothers me somewhat -- people read different things for many different reasons. You can like sociology and cozy mysteries and science fiction and literary fiction and Regency romances. Doesn't make you dumb. Enjoy yourself! This entry was originally posted at http://zizi-west.dreamwidth.org/70825.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
"The borrowing of erotic fiction from UK public libraries has leapt by 500% over the past 12 months, in what is being called the "Fifty Shades" effect.
Last year's most popular erotic fiction title, Indigo Bloom's Destined to Feel, was borrowed almost 11,700 times."
It's not just the UK! I helped a patron with a catalog search for an erotic romance novel a while ago. The book wasn't in our academic library but I showed her how to search for the book in public library catalogs. Found it in 3 different formats without saying the title out loud so that she wouldn't feel self-conscious, smiled, and wished her a good day.
"One suggestion for the increase is that automated library checkouts might be helping borrowers avoid any embarrassment when taking such books out."
Snobbery directed toward genre fiction or 'popular histories' bothers me somewhat -- people read different things for many different reasons. You can like sociology and cozy mysteries and science fiction and literary fiction and Regency romances. Doesn't make you dumb. Enjoy yourself! This entry was originally posted at http://zizi-west.dreamwidth.org/70825.html. Please comment there using OpenID.