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With 17,250 eBooks online as of October 05, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.90 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,707,722 x 17,250 x $.90 = ~$1 Trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. With 17,250 eBooks online as of October 05, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.58 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.72 when we had 13,891 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,250 eBooks in 34 Years and 03.00 Months We Averaged ~504 Per Year 42.0 Per Month 1.38 Per Day At 2294 eBooks Done In The 273 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.4 Per Day 59 Per Week 255 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. 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