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This way of looking at it might justify the statistic, but at the cost of making it uninteresting.
by mannykannot 4y ago
This way of looking at it might justify the statistic, but at the cost of making it uninteresting.
- repsilat 4y agoInteresting enough to me, and pretty relevant to a claim like "book-writing is rarely commercially worthwhile". No "points scored" against the publishing industry, but point-scoring is for shallow people. For publishing, I wonder how many copies of little-bought books are read, and how many are printed -- both probably quite different to the number sold. And I also wonder how the outcome distribution compares to venture capital outcomes, and what predictor variables are useful. "Harry Potter" is a famous case of prediction being difficult (or at least badly done?) but you can probably get some signal from author (writing history, other celebrity), genre.
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