We (mostly my cofounder at Leanpub, Peter, but I've done it once or twice) do the same thing when talking about "the rise of serial fiction via fanfiction" to a

We (mostly my cofounder at Leanpub, Peter, but I've done it once or twice) do the same thing when talking about "the rise of serial fiction via fanfiction" to a publishing audience. We show them the "books" page of fanfiction.net[1] and then note that the numbers there are the number of stories written in each book's universe, not the number of readers or views or anything like that. Go look if you haven't seen it, it's amazing. [1]: https://www.fanfiction.net/book/ https://www.fanfiction.net/book/