Writing books is not really a good idea
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Writing books is not really a good idea
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Re: Writing books is not really a good idea
#2That’s more than I was expecting given the 98% selling less than 5000 referenced in the opening paragraph.
But then again, that 2.6 million books were sold is also more than I expected.
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#3I wonder how serializing a novel would mesh with most author’s work flow. I guess most would want to write it first and release monthly an already finished product?
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#5Why would anyone consider this shocking, there is a massive amount of content out there, and the human race is finite.
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#6I would have been happy if my toddler book was published and sold even $5k copies.
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#7Is there somewhere to find the names of the 268 books?
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#8That’s more than I was expecting given the 98% selling less than 5000 referenced in the opening paragraph. But then again, that 2.6 million books were sold is also more than I expected.
2.6 million would mean 1 in 3000 people on earth, bought at least 1 book in the last year. That doesn't seem very surprising to me?
Although I think you meant to write 27 million (268 * 100k)
edit - ignore, I missed that it was 2.6m unique in the article
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#9How is audible factored in here? I've 10X'd my audible intake over the past year.
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#10I feel like I'm one of the few people that still does purchase books. In 2020 & 2021 I bought music theory books from amazon + jazzbooks.com, and I had some Korean books imported by a friend. I have the space and bookshelves to house them though.