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are there any numbers on how many books there are in the world based on genres?
mostly interested in knowing how many fantasy vs sci-fi novels there are
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Fantasy must win by a fairly wide margin especially at this point
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>>24744956
Self-help and fad diet books probably outpublish all. The flood of new age woo in the 60s and 70s alone must be immense.
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>>24744956
>>24745047
Cookbooks & technical manuals probably have them all beat. By a lot!
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>>24744946
ChatGPT says: So, the safe modern answer: about 170 million books exist today, with the number constantly climbing.
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>>24745322
>starting a sentence with so
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>>24745322
Tell chatgpt that I, an anonymous poster in this thread on the topic, say it is a stupid pajeet
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>>24745196
>>24745047
What about fashion magazines and academical thesis?
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>>24744946
>There are probably people out there who really eat breakfast like this
>some of them are grown adults
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>>24745322
No fucking way there are less books than people
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>>24744946

all scifi becomes fantasy after enough time has passed...
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>>24746251
You don't eat it like cereal. You present it to kids on Halloween to watch them suffer.



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