Tips and quips on publishing from a literary agent.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
400,000 Books and Counting
According to stats released Wednesday by R.R. Bowker, the total number of books produced in 2007 increased 39% to 411,422. The reason? Print on demand, short run, and unclassified titles, whose numbers jumped from 21,936 to 134,773.
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That's the number of titles, right (and not the number of books)?
Jonathan Lyons is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., where represents a select list of authors of biographies, history, science, pop culture, sports, general narrative non-fiction, mysteries, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy, and young adult fiction, in addition to serving as subagent in the United States for several agencies in the UK. Having previously run translation rights at McIntosh & Otis and Folio Literary Management, Jonathan currently oversees Curtis Brown’s translation rights department.
Jonathan is also a licensed publishing attorney with the boutique entertainment law firm Savur & Pellecchia, a member of The Authors Guild, and a member of the Contracts Committee of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc.
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That's the number of titles, right (and not the number of books)?
I'm not sure what you're asking. The actual number of books that were produced last year is in the many millions.
Oh, I see. I think most people will know what I mean.
So the number of non-POD/short run/etc titles is still around 275K.
Hmm, not bad. Still a lot of titles.
So the number of non-POD/short run/etc titles is still around 275K.
Hmm, not bad. Still a lot of titles.
I can't help but wonder what governs the categories that suffered drops.
Hi Jonathan,
Are there numbers/stats somewhere to compare hard copies/traditionally published books, from year to year?
Say - to compare 1987 to 2007? I can't help but think that number has grown by a large amount.
I think it's interesting to think about, for a number of reasons.
BISG or Bowker might have that type of info...
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