Essence Magazine Bestselling Author Leads Successful Publishing Company

More black men are reading as the sales of a new and fast growing genre in publishing heats up. New York based publishing company Q-Boro Books is fostering and leading that emerging genre.

Queens, NY (PRWEB) February 22, 2005 -- Essence Magazine bestselling author, Mark Anthony, leads successful publishing company, Q-Boro Books, which is serving the huge demand in one of the fastest growing segments in publishing. According to the top trade magazine, Publishers Weekly, Street-Lit, is one of the fastest growing genres in the book industry today. Urban-Lit, Hip-Hop Lit, and Gangsta-Lit are just some of the names used to describe this fast growing genre of books.

Surprising to many, but not surprising to Q-Boro Books, Street-Lit has sparked a major interest in reading among black men, particularly inner city black men. It is an interest in reading amongst that group of men that many publishing executives had perceived as hopeless and therefore that segment was never targeted by the publishing industry. Mark Anthony, President and Publisher of New York based Q-Boro Books, a leading publisher of Street Lit, says that the marked rise in reading among the 18 -- 40 year old black male demographic can be attributed to the fact that Street-Lit books often portray stories that closely mirror real life in many urban settings and have plots and circumstances that many black men can relate to.

With four hugely popular titles in print, Q-Boro Books plans to release 12 books in 2005 and 24 books in 2006. Q-Boro Books novels are not all centered on stereotypical urban violent themes as some would think. Q-Boro publishes stories that are rooted in urban settings but which are diverse in their portrayal. That is one of the reasons why Street-Lit is not just popular among male blacks. The reach of Q-Boro Books novels are wide sweeping and growing in their influence.

Street Lit novels are not just a passing trend. They are here to stay and will only grow more and more into the mainstream. It is just a matter of time before the books that are published by Q-Boro Books and similar Street-Lit publishers replace the mainstream books that appear on the New York Times bestsellers list. The same thing that happened to hip-hop music will happen in the publishing industry, predicts Q-Boro Books. In fact, many are comparing Street-Lit to rap music. And just as rap was predicted to only be a fad that would pass, so it is said about Street-Lit. But as we now know today, rap music is one of the most influential and profitable forms of music in the world. If Street-Lit will indeed follow in the footsteps of rap music in terms of its dominance in its respective industry, the publishing industry, Q-Boro Books is sure to be a leader and at the forefront of that shift in dominance. The writing is on the wall, in that stories that Q-Boro Books publishes are allotted shelf space in major bookstores such as Borders and Waldenbooks for one reason and one reason only, and that is because they sell and they sell very well.

For more information on Q-Boro Book books and their authors please visit www.qborobooks.com

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