>>24531264 (OP)>How the fuck do you explain this?thusly:
>>24531280and the books on your list, in order, are written in:
1. English
2. French
3. Portugese
4. English
5. English
6. Chinese
7. English
8. English
Also
>Many books lack comprehensive sales figures as book selling and reselling figures prior to the introduction of point of sale equipment was based on the estimates of book sellers, publishers or the authors themselves. For example, one of the one volume Harper Collins editions of The Lord of the Rings was recorded to have sold only 967,466 copies in the UK by 2009 (the source does not cite the start date),[9] but at the same time the author's estate claimed global sales figures of in excess of 150 million. Accurate figures are only available from the 1990s[citation needed] and in western nations such as US, UK, Canada and Australia, although figures from the US are available from the 1940s. Further, e-books have not been included as out of copyright texts are often available free in this format. Examples of books with claimed high sales include The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas,[10] Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes,[11] Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en[12] and The Lord of the Rings[13] (which has been sold as both a three volume series, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, as a single combined volume and as a six volume set in a slipcase) by J. R. R. Tolkien. Hence, in cases where there is too much uncertainty, they are excluded from the list.>Accurate figures are only available from the 1990s[citation needed] and in western nations such as US, UK, Canada and Australia, although figures from the US are available from the 1940s.Aside from being poorly written, that assertion is laughable.
I used to work in publishing and there are most definitely very accurate records of books sales going much, much further back than 1990. Asie from the obvious reasons to keep such records, certain employees (not to mention the author, and the author's agents and publicists, as well as wholesalers, and retail stores) had bonuses calculated based on these numbers, so to pretend they don't exist is farcical.
Not sure what they're playing at here, exactly.
