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   by ellegriffin 5y ago

   I did mention Alexandre Dumas as a case study in a previous article. Here's a snippet: "But there used to be another way. When Alexandre Dumas debuted The Count of Monte Cristo it was published as a feuilleton—a portion of the wee
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   by ellegriffin 5y ago

   Yes, it's only online book sales. NPD book wouldn't give me numbers on print sales. Though I learned in a previous article that print sales tend to be less than online sales.
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   by ellegriffin 5y ago

   Absolutely, but it was completely profitable for the author. Alexandre Dumas earned about 10,000 francs ($65,743 today) per installment when he was poached from The Presse by The Constitutionnel in 1845. And it's estimated he was makin
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   by ellegriffin 5y ago

   These stats are total book titles. Not just fiction. So non-fiction is somewhere in there!
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   by ellegriffin 5y ago

   Bookstat didn't share the list of 268 books with me, but they did share the one book that sold more than a million copies in 2020: it was a Kindle-exclusive Thomas & Mercer title called “If You Tell” by Gregg Olsen…
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   by ellegriffin 5y ago

   Yes, that is correct. 2.6 million different titles were sold (not total copies.)
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   Writing books is not really a good idea(ellegriffin.substack.com)

   577 points by ellegriffin 5y ago|609 comments
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   by ellegriffin 5y ago

   I so agree.