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2.6 million would mean 1 in 3000 people on earth, bought at least 1 book in the last year. That doesn't seem very surprising to me? Although I think you meant
by nullandvoid 5y ago
2.6 million would mean 1 in 3000 people on earth, bought at least 1 book in the last year. That doesn't seem very surprising to me?
Although I think you meant to write 27 million (268 * 100k)
edit - ignore, I missed that it was 2.6m unique in the article
- rmah 5y agoI think the 2.6 mil refers to the # of titles available for sale, not the number of copies sold.
- nullandvoid 5y agoOops I skimmed the article and missed that - thanks.
- contravariant 5y agoSomehow I get the feeling that people are dropping qualifiers left and right. For instance the 2.6 million is books sold online. And more importantly I strongly suspect someone somewhere failed to mention this was all U.S. only. At least I suspect it is.
- lazide 5y agoThe data is also quite sparse and almost certainly missing a large chunk of the worlds population. Looking at their website, I doubt they’re covering the Chinese domestic market. I’d also be surprised if they’re covering say Bangladesh, or Indian non-English books or content. Same with Indonesia. That right there would probably throw all the numbers off dramatically world population wise.