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No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies

A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing

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Lincoln Michel
Sep 04, 2022
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One thing the PRH/SS merger trial revealed is that publishing has a lot of problems. This is very true! At the same time, many of the problems seem to have mutated into unbelievable chimeras as they made their way around the discourse. Today, for example, much of the literary internet was debating a claim that 50% of books publ…

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