[LMB] Touchy list -- I blame publishing schedules

[James Nicoll]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jill Tallman wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: James Nicoll <jdnicoll at panix.com>
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>     If the average American reads 2 books a year...
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> more snippage
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> That's not a factual number is it? Holy Mother of Pearl!
>
 	It should be "if the average American _buys_ etc" but yeah, that's 
the right number for the US and Canada.

 	Your average mid-list book might get seen by 1/500th the number of 
people whose numbers were not sufficient to keep FIREFLY on the air. In 
fact, more people attend the average Denver Broncos game than pick up the 
average non-best seller book (I think it's about four times as many).