ebooks for YA (non romance)

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Hey,

I'm curious about something. In the time it takes me to blink, I can find 100 e publishers or POD publishers that want submissions for romance. But I've yet to find any that want submissions for non-romance YA. Do you guys know of any?

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Yeah, you guys with the publishing smarts.

I've sporadically done search ... but haven't really found any that I could be 100% sure they took non-romance YA speculative.
 

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Anecdotally, there doesn't seem to be much of a market for YA in ebooks, since not many parents trust teens with credit cards and expensive gadgets. It may improve with smart phones, but there's a lot more competition for attention with a phone. Romance is the biggest market in ebooks (a lot of multi-genre publishers are tightening their focus to romance at the moment too) but even most of the big romance players don't offer much of a YA selection. You might be better off looking at print still.

EDIT: Drollerie has a YA imprint, if your work has a speculative bent.
 
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Jupiter Gardens Press http://www.jupitergardens.com publishes science fiction and fantasy/urban fantasy/paranormal novels for both adults and teenagers. They're my YA publisher. Their books come out in print and e-book essentially simultaneously. (E-book usually is available a week or two before the print version.)
 

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Young Rebel Publications is new, but they do digital for teens.

Last I heard, smartphones was where to find the teen readers.
 

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Quake (sorry, no link) does YA with and without romance, too. Their editor posted something to that effect a few weeks ago.
 
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