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Anthony G Williams · 25th April 2008, 08:20 AM

A quote from my web article "On Publishing Fiction" (link in previous post):

"To put this into context, a couple of comments I read in the UK press in 2007 were that the worst-selling two-thirds of the c.85,000 books on sale at any one time sell an average of just 18 copies; and that the best-selling novel of the six shortlisted for the 2007 Booker prize had sold only just over 1,500 copies by August of that year. Furthermore, the size of the market is declining. Jo Fletcher, the editorial director of Gollancz, commented in a 2007 interview in Vector magazine (published by the British Science Fiction Association) that the typical initial print run for a UK paperback was now 4,000 copies, compared with 10,000 in 1986."

25th April 2008, 08:20 AM	#15 (permalink)
Anthony G Williams Greybeard Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 421	Re: Self publishing - a few thoughts! A quote from my web article "On Publishing Fiction" (link in previous post): "To put this into context, a couple of comments I read in the UK press in 2007 were that the worst-selling two-thirds of the c.85,000 books on sale at any one time sell an average of just 18 copies; and that the best-selling novel of the six shortlisted for the 2007 Booker prize had sold only just over 1,500 copies by August of that year. Furthermore, the size of the market is declining. Jo Fletcher, the editorial director of Gollancz, commented in a 2007 interview in Vector magazine (published by the British Science Fiction Association) that the typical initial print run for a UK paperback was now 4,000 copies, compared with 10,000 in 1986."