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The Twilight Saga: Bringing Vampires Back from the Dead

USA Today has two new articles article about the Twilight saga, and how Stephenie Meyer's vampires are making the undead popular again:
"Led by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, vampires devoured USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list in 2009.
For the second year in a row, Meyer swept the top four spots. No other author — not even J. K. Rowling— has done that in the list's 16-year history.
Meyer's coattails pulled 16 other vampire titles onto the list of

the year's 100 most popular books."
Click here to read the rest of the first article.

"Book sales rise from these graves
We have Stephenie Meyer's Twilight vampires to thank, in part, for the fact that at least 17% of all book sales tracked in 2009 were related to vampires (and assorted other undead creatures, including zombies) or the paranormal (including paranormal romances).
Click here to read the rest of the second article.

It's kind of funny: Carlisle and I were just talking today about how interesting it is that, ever since Twilight became big, new vampire books, movies, and TV series' have been popping up left and right. Very interesting indeed.

Sincerely, Alice

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