The Nature of Counting, or, the Numbers Racket
I stole the title for this post from an e-mail Eliot Weinberger sent me that points out a huge discrepancy between the name of this blog and the list of January translations. As stated on our about us page, a number of studies—from the NEA, Bowker, etc.—have concluded that approx. 3% of all books published in ...
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Publishing Sales Statistics
Scott Esposito pointed this out earlier today from the June 2007 Harper’s Index: Minimum number of different books sold in the U.S. last year, as tracked by Nielsen BookScan: 1,446,000 Number of these that sold fewer than 99 copies: 1,123,000 Number that sold more than 100,000: 483 In other ...
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