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Source on fiction selling better than non-fiction? I can't think of any explanation for a book written by an early female employee at Facebook receiving little
by benastan 13y ago
Source on fiction selling better than non-fiction?
I can't think of any explanation for a book written by an early female employee at Facebook receiving little attention other than a clear judgment about the value of the author's voice.
- lutusp 13y ago> Source on fiction selling better than non-fiction? I'm not the OP, but I think the claim is ambiguous at best: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/50024-print-decline-accelerated-in-2011.html http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/fi... 2010 2011 % Change Adult Nonfiction 271,518,000 263,030,000 -3.1% Adult Fiction 194,775,000 160,336,000 -17.7 Juvenile Nonfiction 36,931,000 35,799,000 -3.0 Juvenile Fiction 151,116,000 143,316,000 -5.2 Based on that statistic, nonfiction outsells fiction among adults, but among juveniles it's the other way around.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoThose figures are only for print books, on ebooks fiction massively outsells non-fiction, which is where the 17.7 percent drop in adult fiction sales in print are coming from in your figures. http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/e-book-fans-devoted-to-fiction http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/e-book-fans-d... It is hard to get good figures overall, but if you include both print and ebook, it seems to be about 60% fiction and 40% non fiction.