Do Literary Books Sell Fewer Copies than Genre Books?

Lancelot Schaubert

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Lance Schaubert
21 July 2025

Art: financial aspects; Writing & editing guides; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Advice on careers & achieving success

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If you're simply here for a quicky answer to the question Do Literary Books Sell Fewer Copies than Genre Books?, the answer at first blush seems to be a messy ""no."" But Betteridge's law of headlines could have told you that. The question is why. Because we can answer the question so many ways: taxonomically, mathematically, philosophically, etc.

When you look closer, the answer isn't what you expect. Even if you expect the ""no"" because you know Betteridge's law. This is a far more complicated question than it seems at first blush, perhaps even unanswerable by the time we get to the end of this journey, which I argue is absolutely worth taking because of every issue and idea it touches. If we were comparing American car sales to subscription French equestrian lessons, we could probably make a pretty quick dollar-to-dollar comparison. But the moment you start saying something like ""sales of fast cars,"" well I have to ask, does this include Geo Metros? Not at first blush, until you look under the hood and see the Geo Metro Turbo out classing a souped up Honda Civic on the racetrack.

So it gets messy.

By: Lancelot Schaubert
Imprint: Lance Schaubert
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 108mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 73g
ISBN: 9781949547214
ISBN 10: 1949547213
Pages: 90
Publication Date: 21 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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