Historical book publishing statistics
Does anyone have quick-and-dirty, and preferably annual, statistics on numbers of books published in the United States, the UK, and any other country, over time?
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Wallace J.McLean wrote:
Does anyone have quick-and-dirty, and preferably annual, statistics on numbers of books published in the United States, the UK, and any other country, over time?
You can get some of these via "The Bowker Annual" at most reference desks. Michael I have last year's, and the 1955, right here, if these are of interest.
In the library, I've seen large annual volumes of "New Published Books" from the earlyer 1900s, but I don't remember a summmary of numbers in them. A quick google search led me to some pages like these, that might help: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1288046,00.html http://mjroseblog.typepad.com/buzz_balls_hype/2005/06/is_yours_the_28.html http://www.primezone.com/pub/headlines.mhtml?d=53251 Andrew On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Wallace J.McLean wrote:
Does anyone have quick-and-dirty, and preferably annual, statistics on numbers of books published in the United States, the UK, and any other country, over time?
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