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1% of Books Sell 5K And Other Misleading Stats

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1% of Books Sell 5K And Other Misleading Stats

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Anne Trubek
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1% of Books Sell 5K And Other Misleading Stats

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The book world (aka my twitter feed) is abuzz with a recent stat in the New York Times that only 1% of books sold more than 5,000 copies in 2021. (This after a previous stat that only 2% sold that many in 2020). I think this stat might be very misleading!

Also, the book world pretty much overlooked what I find to be a much more interesting story from Pu…

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