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How many poem anthologies do you imagine are published every year? My impression was: not many at all. Poetry doesn't sell.
by lj3 9y ago
How many poem anthologies do you imagine are published every year? My impression was: not many at all. Poetry doesn't sell.
- gwern 9y agoI imagine a fair many such anthologies get published. Poetry no longer sells in general, that is true, and it would be odd for any poetry lover to buy an unknown anthology rather than a collected edition by one of their famous poets... But there is a particular niche, which everyone on HN is familiar with, where books regularly book very lucrative profits while being sold at full price, and whose authors churn through edition after edition and regularly turn out new works - college textbooks. And indeed, when I look at the Amazon page for the very first anthology listed, "The Broadview Anthology of Poetry", 2 of the 4 reviews mention needing it for a class.