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Originally Posted by Zetmolm
Here you will find what this list exactly is about.
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Thanks, Zetmolm.
But it only says "I have compiled this list of the 10 Most Read Books In The World after completing a long project of research to establish exactly which are the most read books in the world".
Why I have my doubts about this list:
- Like others I think that counting different books of a series as one (Harry Potter, Twiglight Saga) is cheating.
- The author claims that printings over the last 50 years are counted. That would let me assume that more older than younger books are listed. But (ignoring the first two books) the contrary is the case. There is a 50:50 ratio between older and recent books and one even finds the newer books on the lower ranks.
- From all the books written in a latin language like French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho should really be the most printed?
- I am wondering that there ain't one single Russian book on the list. The Soviet Union/Russia covers a huge market, books have been extremely inexpensive during the Soviet times, so I could imagine that at least one book is printed and sold very very often over all these years.
- How correct are these figures? Does he really know, for instance, how many books are printed in Europe or China?
I'm not saying the list is wrong, it may be perfectly valid. I'm just wondering about some things that are not like I would have expected them.