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That's Google Book's estimate as of 2010, so there are more now: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html http://books
by siruncledrew 8y ago
That's Google Book's estimate as of 2010, so there are more now: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-...
- dredmorbius 8y agoThe rate of publishing as recorded by Bowker (issuers of ISBNs) is about 300,000 "traditional" books (publishing houses), and about 1 - 1.5 million if you include "nontraditional" (self-published / print-on-demand) books. The 300k figure has been very consistent since the 1950s, and is even down somewhat from the 1970s / 1980s IIRC (US LoC annual report data). So the total is only up by at most about 10-15m books, and if you're looking at traditional publishing, about 3m. The quality of books published is another question.