I remember reading a statistic that something like 70-80% of all books sold are nonfiction, but I can't remember where I saw that stat, or the exact figure. I want to use it in an article. Anyone know?
Looking for stat: Percentage of nonfic vs. fic?
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This doesn't list it, but it might give you a jumping off point:
http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html
Good luck.
http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html
Good luck.
I think Larsen and Pomada made similar comments in Vater's older agent book. Dunno where they got the stat, but it seems about right to moi.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Thanks! I didn't find exactly what I was looking for, but something close enough: Bowker (the ISBN agency) states that less than 10 percent of all books published are novels. That doesn't mean the same thing as less than 10 percent of all books sold, however. I wish there was a reliable way to track book sales.
Many non-fiction books have very limited sales. I have a dozen or so user manuals in print, with ISBNs even, but their total sales figures are in the 10s to low thousands for the most part. That really skews the figures.