![]() The second largest subgenre is contemporary romance with over 146,000 books.Įrotic romance hasn’t been around nearly as long as contemporary romance, so how does this genre have nearly double the number of books?Īlthough Samhain and Ellora’s Cave are no longer around, there are still many publishers of erotica and erotic romance. At the time of this writing, a browse through Amazon’s Kindle book categories show over 282,000 books offered under erotica, not including LGBT romances, which have their own categories. Romance publishers are scrambling to find the next great erotic romance.Įrotica is the subgenre with the most number of books within the romance offering. Some authors attribute the downturn to the glut of erotic romance books now available to readers. One author said she is focusing on contemporary romance as a result, while another described recent sales as “abysmal” compared to what she was seeing a few years ago. Then came the sudden news that All Romance Ebooks, a boutique retailer specializing in romance and erotica, was also closing.Ī number of authors I had interviewed said that after seeing an initial bump in sales thanks to Fifty Shades, the numbers have definitely leveled off since then. Ellora’s Cave was a pioneer in erotic romance publishing long before Fifty Shades. Last year, Samhain Publishing and Ellora’s Cave Publishing, both of whom had been publishing erotic fiction for over ten years each, announced plans to shut down. Is it still a good genre to write and publish in? ![]() ![]() Now that several years have passed and we’ve seen the closure of businesses that specialize in publishing erotic books, is the erotica/erotic romance market still flying high or has this genre lost its sizzle? Erotic romance took center stage in the world of fiction when Fifty Shades of Grey became a bestselling phenomenon.
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