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Title: Over two million book titles published just this year.
Post by: Tonyonline on October 21, 2018, 11:34:17 PM

See Book stats - Worldometers (http://www.worldometers.info/books/). And increasing every minute.
Amazing huh? Maybe not the worlds a big place.

But what I did think was quite amazing is that according to justpublishingadvice (https://justpublishingadvice.com/how-many-kindle-ebooks-are-there/) a new Kindle e-book is published every five minutes, now that's a lot.

I did try to find out what are the most popular fiction genres, but after finding this from last year on publishedtodeath (https://publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2017/11/what-are-most-popular-literary-genres.html) I gave up.

Anyhow. I'd imagine many of you know all this already, but for those who don't, it makes for an interesting read.

Title: Re: Over two million book titles published just this year.
Post by: Bill Hiatt on October 22, 2018, 12:02:03 AM

It's unfortunate that the Worldometer data is based on Unesco information that in most cases goes back to 2011 or earlier. It's probably even higher now.

Title: Re: Over two million book titles published just this year.
Post by: David VanDyke on October 22, 2018, 01:13:39 AM

The definition of "published" has changed a lot. Now anyone can take a Word doc, publish it and call it a book. That doesn't mean it's a book, or even of book length.

Lots of pamphlets, small how-to books the size of novelettes, and other specialty items. Many are scraped content of garbage, thrown up in hopes of getting some sucker to buy a copy every month or two, and not bother to return. Do that times 1000 and you have a living in many parts of the world.

Of those which are books, a tiny fraction have commercial potential. Most will never go anywhere. Many are poorly written memoirs published primarily for family.