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>Last year, Lulu created 400,000 titles and sold over 1.6 million books So Lulu sold an average of four copies per title? I'd be interested to see a chart of s
by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
>Last year, Lulu created 400,000 titles and sold over 1.6 million books
So Lulu sold an average of four copies per title? I'd be interested to see a chart of sales by title - I'm guessing it would be the mother of all zipf distributions.
- mhd 16y agoA lot of Lulu customers don't market their books, they just use the service to print private copies of family memoirs, documentation or other one-off products. No break-out hits that I'm aware of. Some indy RPG publishers sell reasonable numbers. Wil Wheaton's book ran pretty well...
- jgrahamc 16y agoI agree, it's likely a power law of some kind. My book about GNU Make (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gnu-make-unleashed/2937580 http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gnu-make-unleashed/293...) has sold a healthy 80 copies.