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Originally Posted by Kostas
It appears that there are more titles published per year in the UK than in the States (206,000 and 172,000 respectively)!!
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Very odd. And I wonder what they mean by "published"--do they count Lulu.com entries? (Since their source is an article from 2006, I'm assuming not.)
I suspect someone was either working with incomplete data, or playing interesting number games. (That's aside from my belief that they're not counting books that are published without an ISBN; since I'd assume those are ignored in all markets, they balance out. There's no way to count how many self-made books are published each year.)
OTOH, it does strike me as frighteningly possible that US education has dropped to such a level that casual book-reading is rare enough to have severely depressed the marketplace. Hmm.