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Originally Posted by MovieBird
According to this site there are ~70 colleges in the U.S. that have an aerospace degree program. There were ~40 students in my aerodynamics class, so that's 2800 students a year, assuming they only offer the class once and all classrooms are the same size. That's also ignoring aeronautical degree programs, or any other programs of study that may require it (such as flight school, automotive racing, etc.). There are more aeronautical programs than aerospace, by the way, so there are more than 5,000 students (in the US alone) that have to purchase a text every year. |
But they're almost certainly not all buying the same textbook. As a minimum, your 5000 students are probably buying 3 or 4 different textbooks, so that's a market of perhaps 1000-1500 copies per book. That's not a lot, especially if half the students are buying a 2nd-hand rather than a new copy.