Book production: Patterns and predictors

摘要

Although previous studies have shown that book production is currently increasing, not decreasing, and McLuhan's dire predictions about the end of the book appear to be wrong, there are few methods to assess the exact state of the book trade. Once a satisfactory technique has been agreed to, long-term studies can be attempted. A technique is presented here for deriving variables and an equation that approximates the number of books produced per person for a given year in the United States.