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Off-by-magnitude error. 300m readers / 300k books is 1,000 readers per book, not 100. (Assuming readers are allocated evenly and each person buys one book/yea
by dredmorbius 2y ago
Off-by-magnitude error. 300m readers / 300k books is 1,000 readers per book, not 100.
(Assuming readers are allocated evenly and each person buys one book/year, both of which are ... unlikely.)
But this is how long-tail distributions are formed. Poisson distribution, power functions, Zipf's law, etc., etc.