Did CB realize what adding a 'Books' Category could do?

[Fred Slota]

Excerpts from https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/how-many-books-are-published-each-year/

 

"According to a study conducted by Google Books, there have been 129,864,880 books published since the invention of Gutenberg's printing press in 1440."

 

And that's probably not counting printings, different editions, different publishers.

 

"So, how many books are published every year?

The answer is more complicated than you’d think. Figures range from 500,000 to one million books published annually.

However, if you include self-published authors you’re looking at close to 4 million new book titles published each year."

 

What happens when people's attentions shift from translating archives of periodicals to scraping publisher, library and bookseller's records?

[Scott J. Promish]

The same thing that's destroying Goodreads right now.