I heard some interesting statistics today about book sales in the U.S. Last year, 1,446,000 DIFFERENT books were sold in the various bookstores around the country. That’s the number of different titles.
Now… how many of those books do you think sold more than 100,000 copies? It was a grand total of 483! Or 0.0003% (three ten-thousandths of one percent) of all the books sold.
On the flip side, how many books do you think sold FEWER than 99 copies? 1,123,000! 78% of all the different books sold in the U.S. sold under 100! Now, that’s not to say that all those books NEVER sold more than 100 copies. That’s just in the one year. But still, interesting statistics.
And if you’re in the process of writing that novel with the hopes of producing a best seller, just realize what a small percentage of books actually make it. Not to disillusion anyone, but at least to maybe keep you from resting ALL your hopes on that novel. 
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