
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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How Many Books Sell More Than 5,000?
The economics of the book market are very much a numbers game and that it's a little bit of a gambler's game. The best way to guarantee that you publish a bestseller is to publish a hundred titles and one of them will be a bestseller. It's not clear whether that's true, but that's certainly what they're saying.
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