Just kidding. The NY Times puts some frightening interesting numbers on the growth of book publishing, though:
In 2007, a whopping 400,000 books were published or distributed in the United States, up from 300,000 in 2006, according to the industry tracker Bowker, which attributed the sharp rise to the number of print-on-demand books and reprints [...]
Good news if you’re an author or publisher. Media Life magazine reports that:
…for all these different toys, these wonderful new technologies, reading tops the list of things Americans would most rather do, given the choice, and by a large margin.
Not only that, reading is higher on that list than ever. Watching TV is No. [...]
Steven Johnson, author of The Ghost Map, points out the insanely fun/bizarre text stats for books available on Amazon. You can find stats on everything from average words per sentence, to cost per word:
Text Stats is a pretty wonky page — everything from some of the “readability” indices, to overall word count, to what Amazon [...]
