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ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 days agoSame. I think sales figures for new works could provide a partial picture, but not anything definitive. The only thing I found in my short research (I like doing big research binges, but don’t have time for it today) was this article, which is far from a mic-drop but it sure is interesting.
I just like to discuss things.
Same. Sorry for jumping down your throat earlier. I assumed a tone of you that you weren’t using.
Dasus@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Hmm… I wonder where they’re taking they’re projections from, since there could be a little bit of bias involved. If it’s from a relatively short period which coincides with say, a lot of inflation, it’d only make sense that the second hand book market would increase, because books are a commodity that even the poorest people may have hanging about, some of which might actually sell rather well.
I know that around covid and a bit later I certainly took a lot of my books down to the second hand shop to see whether I could score some money for food and booze. I did too. Turns out Discworld novels have an extremely high turnover. Especially the English versions. He didn’t care for GRRM or Douglas Adams that much, but Pratchett sells like hotcakes I gather. (I do live in a university city.)
No wörries. Having been on the internet a while I’m rather used to people taking me as being “mad” when I write long comments in a very neutral tone. It’s a feature of humanity. We can’t help but to imagine a tone of voice to something we read (unless you’re reading like a manual, and even then, you’re gonna like read it just in a neutral tone in your head), and usually when it’s anything that remotely disagrees with us, we assume a negative tone.
I do it all the time as well. It can be helped though. But I assume, decades of meditation and dedication to a way of thinking and managing yourself. Or optionally, a midrange recreational dose of MDMA/LSD/psilocybin or other serotonergic substances.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Absolutely. Even putting aside the possibilities for regional and temporal bias, they’re a literary society; they’re quite likely to strongly play up some minor noise in both directions–either to paint themselves as a dying breed in need of saving, or as an ascendant force worth watching. They’re very unlikely to have no opinion one way or the other.
Interesting that Pratchett sold well but Adams didn’t. I can kind of see Martin, since that was right after the TV show shambled to a halt ignobly, but Pratchett and Adams feel like they’re cut from the same cloth, particularly as far as people who would enjoy their work go. Maybe there was a bump associated with the Good Omens show?
Anyway. I appreciate your gracefulness. I try intentionally to not be that kind of guy online, so it stung particularly because I felt like I was betraying myself. Don’t get on social media on a bad day, kids.