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Re:What We Gain from a Good Bookstore by dredmorbius on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:17PM (#32372079)
Where are you getting your count of books available on Amazon?

I'd be curious how this compares with LibGen / ZLibrary (about 4--5 million titles).

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Re:What We Gain from a Good Bookstore by CapitalistCartr on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:28PM (#32372531)
The number of books published annually is somewhere between one million and ten million, depending on how they're counted. Self-published? ebooks? Audiobooks? Etc.
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Re:What We Gain from a Good Bookstore by dredmorbius on Sunday August 07, 2022 @12:09AM (#32373834)
I'm aware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31604033

Keep in mind that a largish municipal library is on the order of 250-500k items.

The Library of Congress includes ~40 million catalogued books, of which ~360k circulate annually.

Again, the question is what Amazon offers.

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