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That's insane. It wouldn't surprise me honestly though, because there are so many books out there. Also, half of them contain grammatical errors and publishing errors because a lot of new authors don't put proper time into a book before releasing it. It's become extremely easy to publish books in today's world.-Nihar
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I've heard that 40,000 books are published weekly. I don't have more data. Not on the ratio trade to self published or print to digital.Still, even if it was 10 percent of that number, the main difficulty of gaining exposure is pretty daunting.
Interesting, that is a similar number to the ones I have heard. Could be an urban myth, of course, but I have never heard any other figure.I wonder why Amazon does not publish their statistics? Possibly they don't want to discourage people.
Scott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_pu...US alone seemed to be over 800 a day in 2011, but the numbers are for new titles and editions. It's not specific to new titles only. It came out to a little over 6,000 a year for the entire list, but some of that was using numbers even farther back.
It would be interesting to find. It would also be interesting to see how many are just others editions or re-released.
With the ease of self-publishing through CreateSpace and such, it would not surprise me if 1000+ were produced daily.
Wondering how many of those are really books, or just non-serious social commentaries published for the amusement of the writer's friends.
I even pay for a blog to try to help find books. I search with my Kindle but weeding through page after page is frustrating. I do get lucky and find great books though
David---I say bless you for wading through the river of new books! As the author of The Elf Lord's Revenge," a fantasy historical romance set in 1843 California with an elf as the hero----how do you stand out? How do you find readers!
Wow! If those figures, i.e. 5,000 published each day on Amazon, are correct then it really is a jaw-dropping uphill struggle to get noticed or find a good book which suits your taste.As David says, there are sites which sort through, to some extent, the better books. eBookSoda, the Fussy Librarian, and www.iauthor.uk.com are three that I know of. Also Indie-Book-Bargains does a good job.
Another way to find good authors is to read anthologies.
Probably one of the best ways of avoiding books with poor grammar and spelling is to read the sample on Amazon. I find that helps a lot. So I think Amazon does try to be helpful.
One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of publishing houses are digitizing the older print versions of their best-selling authors. If you think about how prolific some successful writers are - it's a heck of a backlog. If you check out both Nook and Kindle books under $2 - you'll find a lot of material that was first published in the 80s and 90s. So that's adding to flood.
The most frequent stat I have heard is that roughly 5,000 new titles are launched on Amazon daily. Has anyone heard a different number? This seems huge, far too large to allow most books find a readership.
Are there any figures publsihed which show how many books have downloads at various levels, e.g. Up to 100, up to 500, between 1,000 and 5,000 etc etc.
scott