Unfortunately, at the time this entry was created I was unable to archive more than the abstract. Here it is:
It’s no secret that queer romance is seeing an unprecedented increase in popularity. Despite making up only four percent of romance books sold in print in 2021, traditional retail outlets sold roughly 850,000 queer romance books that same year. This number is more than twice what was sold the previous year and shows a 740 percent increase from five 1 years prior. From May 2022 to May 2023, queer romance sales grew by forty percent—the 2 largest increase in any genre by more than double. Queer fiction as a whole is seeing a 3 surge in popularity, with sales in 2023 up 200 percent from 2019. But it hasn’t always been this way.
Unfortunately, at the time this entry was created I was unable to archive more than the abstract. Here it is: