Interesting Statistics

From Para Publishing's site:

http://parapublishing.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm

In 1975, the bestselling book was E.L. Doctorow's "Ragtime. It sold 232,000 books. In 2000, John Grisham's "The Brethren" sold 2.8 million books.--National Arts Journalism Program, http://www.NAJP.org

Nearly all bestsellers come from five publishing conglomerates.--National Arts Journalism Program, http://www.NAJP.org

6 large publishers (in New York)

3-400 medium-sized publishers

86,000 small/self-publishers
The six U.S. conglomerate publishers are

1. Random House, Inc.

2. Penguin Putnam Inc.

3. HarperCollins

4. Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings

5. Time Warner

6. Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Four are foreign owned

For more facinating statistics, visit Dan Poynter's site!!!