How many books have been written in all human history?

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CarpeDeo

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Trying to find this statistic for a report I'm working on. I'm sure it's some astronomical number with a huge error margin.

Google's been no help, or rather I suck at teh Googling.

Any help??
 
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Mardeth

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Originally posted by: loic2003
Doesn't the london library have a copy of every published book?
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I doubt that veeeery much. Maybe written in english...
 
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loic2003

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Originally posted by: Mardeth
Originally posted by: loic2003
Doesn't the london library have a copy of every published book?
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I doubt that veeeery much. Maybe written in english...
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Yeah that's more likely I guess...

Edit: The British Library "receives copies of all books produced in the UK, including all books from abroad which are reprinted in the UK, and many items which are only printed abroad."

That's what I was thinking of...
 
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Midlander

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Don't forget all the books written and never published. Or those published by private companies.

This will be almost impossible to determine.
 
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badmouse

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All of them :D .

Look on Google for Book Statistics, or Publishing Statistics etc.

I got this:

" Book in Print

1.5+ million titles in print (currently available in the U.S.) Since 1776, 22 million titles have been published.
--Jerrold Jenkins, 15 May 99. http://www.JenkinsGroup.com US: About 120,000 titles are published each year. http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/americanbookproduction.htm "


from here, Dan Poynter's ParaPublishing.com site. It's about 1/5th of the way down in the list. At the bottom of the list are a lot of sources of publishing statistics.

Good luck.
 
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