“Romance print sales last year actually pulled the entire industry into the black,” said writer and journalist Rebecca Ackermann.

The new Nobel laureate in literature, Jon Fosse, is known in much of the world, but has yet to become a household name in the US.

Major publishing houses are looking to popular fan fiction sites to find new authors.

Backlogs hurt the holiday sales season in 2021. In some cases, shops still have to tell customers to wait for their favorite reads.