Writers Block
// August 1st, 2006 // No Comments » // Business, Reading, Writing
Glenn Lucke at the Common Grounds Online Blog has an interesting summary of a Chris Anderson piece from publishers weekly:
Would-Be Writers:
- Statistics on Books Sales in the US 950,000 titles out of 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies
- Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies
- Only 25,000 sold more than 5,000 copies
- The average book in America sells about 500 copies
- Only 10 books sold more than a million copies
