·
In
1885, 4,500 book titles were published in America.
By
1989, 45,000 new book titles were published.
In
2009, 1,335,000 new titles were released in the U.S.
·
There
are over 7,000,000 books available for sale.
·
52%
of all books are not sold in bookstores – they are sold by mail order, online,
through book clubs, or in warehouse stores.
·
A
decade ago, in 2004, 1.2 million book title sales were tracked by Nielsen
Bookscan and only 25,000 titles sold more than 5,000 copies each. Some 950,000 sold fewer than 99 copies.
·
First-time
authors write 75% of the new nonfiction books published each year.
·
85%
of all new titles published each year are non-fiction and 15% are fiction.
·
Chicken
Soup for the Soul, with sales of over 8,000,000 copies, spawned a series that
includes more than four score best-selling books. It was rejected by 144 publishers.
·
Ray
Bradbury received 700 rejections before any of his work was published.
·
A Time to Kill by John Grisham was rejected 45
times. Stephen King’s debut novel, Carrie, was declined 30 times. Even J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was rejected – 14
times! Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was declined by 38 publishers.
·
Sales
of romance books top any other genre by far, within fiction. Women make up 90.5% of the romance
readership. In 2014, romance books
brought in $1.438 billion in revenue.
Mystery brought in half of that.
Classic literary fiction revenue is a third of what romance generates.
·
In
Book Publishing 101, Martha Marda notes this about book publishing’s history:
·
“Until
around 1439, when Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press using a
winepress and movable type, books were copied by hand and were owned by churches,
monasteries, and wealthy families. Most
books were copied on animal vellum (usually treated calfskin). The concept of paper, a much more suitable
material for mechanical printing presses, was imported from Asia, where books
were printed using hand-carved wood blocks.
By 1500, 1,000 printing shops in Europe had produced 35,000 titles and
20 million copies. The Frankfurt Book
Fair, today the world’s largest trade fair for books, originated during the
1400s as a medieval fair where booksellers and printers could display their
wares and buy the supplies they needed for their print shops.”
Additional
Stats, Facts, & Quotes of Interest
1.
Robbie
K. Baxter, in The Membership Economy revealed these statistics that show us how
technology has penetrated our lives:
·
Ninety-nine
percent of all adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach every hour of
every day.
·
There
are 6.8 billion people on the planet, and 4 billion of them use a mobile
phone. Only 3.5 billion of them use a
toothbrush.
·
Every
minute, 100 hours of video are uploaded on YouTube by individual users.
·
Ninety
percent of text messages are read within three minutes of being delivered.
·
The
average 21-year-old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games; sent 250,000
emails, instant messages, and text messages; and has spent 10,000 hours on a
mobile phone.
2.
B.
Alan Bourgeois, director of Texas Association of Authors, revealed in C-Spot Magazine that writers need to be
active participants in the marketing of their books: He wrote:
“In
today’s marketplace, you have to do much more than authors of the bygone years
did. You must be willing to risk
everything and spend ten times as many hours selling your book than it took to
write it. And that is where most authors
fail. It’s not even the willingness to
work hard to sell the book, it’s the fear issue of losing everything if it
doesn’t became a best seller. Reality is that your first book will not be a
best seller, but you need to work just as hard so that your next book, or the
third or fourth or even the twentieth book becomes the best-seller. For when one of them does, then they all
become a best-seller.”
3.
Forbes says the US has 513
billionaires. 7.1 millionaires live
here, says Boston Consulting Group.
4.
By 2050 it’s estimated that 31.4% of the world
will be Christian and 29.7% will be Muslim.
14.9% will be Hindus and 5.2% will be Buddhists. Just one in 500 will be Jewish. The group that will grow the fastest, from
2010 to 2050, will be Muslims – jumping by 73%.
Buddhists are the only major religion expected to not show growth,
declining by .3%.
READ UP!
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violate these three rules!
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