Re: Digest Number 3146

--- In [email protected], "Emily" <veinglory@...> wrote:
>
> Are there figures on the proportion of books sold that are non-fiction, 
> and how this works re: what sales are counted and what is a 'book'?  
> Are we talking number of titles sold to publsihers here, presumably not 
> number of copies sold to the general public in retail chains?
>

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) publishes those figures, drawing
data from several sources, including the US Census Bureau.

The figures are published in "Book Industry Trends" (see
http://www.bisg.org/publications/trends2007.html).

I don't have a copy handy -- and my copies are quite old anyway, so I
can't tell you the answers to your questions, even for several years ago.

But you may be able to find a copy at a good academic library. I
suggest that you use worldcat.org to find a copy near you.

Kent




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