80% of Americans want to write a Novel.
33% of people who graduate from high school never read a book again.
42% of people who graduate from college never read a book again.
80% of US families did not purchase or read a book in a given year.
The stats could go on. This is according to a study conducted by the Jenkins Group. But the most amazing thing is the seeming cognitive dissonance between that first 80% and the last 80%. If you want to write a novel, how about reading one, or reading one to your family.
On the bright side to the 80% of you who want to write a novel, that means that a successful fiction book needs to sell only 5,000 copies and a successful nonfiction book needs to only sell 7,500 copies. Good luck at finding those 5,000 people.
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