I have Sept. 12 circled on my calendar. The day that could change my life. The day I might decide to say “yes” to a certain someone who is going to be there for me, for better or for worse, all the days of … a two-year phone contract. When I heard that Apple might [...]
Sep 05, 2012 | Categories:Features, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone 5, consumer behavior, emotion, Galaxy, Galaxy S III, Google Chrome, iPhone, iPhone 5, mobile, mobile technology, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, smartphone, The Hunger Games, Verizon | 3 Comments »
For anyone who has ever longed for more after finishing a book, the influx of trilogies into the fiction market is good news. From The Hunger Games to Fifty Shades of Grey, three-peats allow storylines to continue to unspool and readers to get further tangled in them. It seems readers agree; authors report that they’re [...]
Aug 27, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Trends, Youth | Tags: best-seller list, erotica, fiction trends, Fifty Shades of Grey, publishing trends, The Hunger Games, trilogy, young adult | Leave A Comment »
In February, sales of e-books for kids and young adults rose by triple digits, and experts say it’s not because kids suddenly made use of the tablets they got for Christmas. Instead, adults tearing through the Hunger Games trilogy ratcheted up profits while sales of adult e-books stagnated. Pottermore has further revolutionized children’s e-books by [...]
Jun 22, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: children's e-books, children’s e-books, children’s literature, e-books, exotic e-books, Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, kid lit, Maurice Sendak, Pottermore, publishing trends, Stephen Colbert, The Hunger Games, YA e-books, YA literature | Leave A Comment »
Hunger Games fever is upon us. Even if you weren’t part of its $155 million opening weekend—the third highest of all time—you would have to live in an outlying district to miss all the chatter about the film and the YA book series that inspired it. But what has raised all this ruckus so quickly [...]
Apr 27, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: Asheville, Canada, Facebook, marketing trends, merchandise, movie trailer trends, Philadelphia, pop culture trends, social marketing, social media marketing, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games cookbook, The Hunger Games movie trailer, The Hunger Games nail polish, The Hunger Games workout, user-generated content, Washington D.C., YouTube | Leave A Comment »
Following the wild success of author Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, dystopian fare is being called the next big thing in young adult fiction—set to steal attention away from all the vampire romances that have quickened our pulses in recent years. The best-selling Hunger Games trilogy, about a 16-year-old heroine in a post-apocalyptic world, has [...]
Apr 10, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Trends, Youth | Tags: Christian radio, dystopia, end of the world, film trends, Harold Camping, Marketing, Mayan calendar, NASA, post-apocalyptic world, publishing, publishing trends, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, young adult, young adult trends | Leave A Comment »
