A stunning fact I came across during my research last week was that, according to Bowker's Industry Statistics for 2007, an estimated 276,649 new titles and editions were published in 2007!
Want to know the Top 10 categories? Here they are:
- Fiction (50,071 titles)
- Juveniles (30,063)
- Sociology, Economics (24,596)
- Religion (18,956)
- History (14,764)
- Science (12,872)
- Philosophy, Psychology (12,635)
- Medicine (10,720)
- Biography (10,615)
- Poetry, Drama (10,258)
Quite amazing, isn't it? Who writes all these books and who reads them? Did I mention that the figure of 276,649 does not even include on-demand, short-run and other unclassified titles? Because that's another 134,773 titles, bringing the total to 411,422 new titles and editions in 2007.
So, if these are actual printed books, then think about the amount of print and online articles and blog posts there must be. Quite mind boggling!
Today's artwork is by Are Mokkelbost, a young talent from Oslo, Norway. It looks like a painting but is an amazing paper collage. Here's more about his works.
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