Heady stuff

摘要

EROTICA is a hot topic for publishers. Americans bought 28.5m romantic novels in print form in 2015. Romance Writers of America, a trade association, says the genre accounts for a third of all novels sold. Random House and Amazon have recently launched imprints to try to sate readers' lust for steamy stories. HarperCollins paid a six-figure sum for one such titillating book at the London Book Fair in 2016.