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Re:Books of the world, stand up and be counted All 129,864,8... by dredmorbius on Saturday August 10, 2024 @12:25PM (#41210541)
Off-by-magnitude error. 300m readers / 300k books is 1,000 readers per book, not 100.

(Assuming readers are allocated evenly and each person buys one book/year, both of which are ... unlikely.)

But this is how long-tail distributions are formed. Poisson distribution, power functions, Zipf's law, etc., etc.

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