Book Sales and Bestsellers
The cluster discusses book sales statistics, the hit-driven nature of the publishing industry where most books sell few copies, and how bestseller lists prioritize marketing and popularity over quality.
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Yeah, one of them will sell more books.
Yep... but the book will sell :)
35% of books published are profitable96% of books sold less than 1,000 copies in 202050% sold less than a dozen copies in 2020This is the state of the industry, publishers publish many books gambling for the hits the make up the vast majority of their revenue.It is a very cold industry with many authors failing to get readers interested. They best measure of schuss is to have a preexisting readership or be popular elsewhere, and even then that's by no means a guarantee of a boo
I suggest you look into how many things were published without such scrutiny, because they sold.
In fairness it's easy to have a best seller if you just shoot the people who won't read it
Mate, that's how most best-seller non-fictional books work
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More content is being written than read. If a book manages a few thousand sold they could end up on the best seller list.People still write at a loss in many cases