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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
GAYLE KING: Why?
JAMES PATTERSON: We’re making this transition to e-books and that’s fine and good and terrific and wonderful, but we’re not doing it in an organized, sane, civilized way. So what’s happening right now is a lot of bookstores are disappearing, a lot of libraries are disappearing or they’re not being funded, school libraries aren’t being funded as well. This is not a good thing. It used to be you could find books everywhere. You go to Sweden, Sweden has 8 million people, a book will sell a million copies there.
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Patterson is a fiction writer, so let's not get too upset about his usage of facts.
1) Sweden has about 9.5 million people
2) The latest bestseller I can find is, The 100 Year Old Man Who Went Out the Window and Disappeared, it sold 614 000 copies. Now, I find this quite impressive in relation to the population, it would be lika a book Selling 20 million copies in the US. But it is still a far cry from a million books as Patterson claims.
At least, now we know what the facts are.
Continue the discussion children.