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Attached is a report from the (British) Arts Council you may find interesting...
I had a wry smile on my face reading this report, largely because, as is fuzzily declared at the beginning of the report, no one can define quite what 'literary fiction' is!
I wonder how much was spent on this study. Outside of an inflated word count, it presents the same numbers and considerations that you will find in my posts in the thread about author income (can't remember the real title).
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Bob
I made a couple posts if memory serves. Mine was about all books, the study used general fiction to measure literature, (that's a failure on it's own, since general fiction includes literature, but literature is only a small percentage of the genre). The numbers presented in the study do include all sales in a lot of their analysis. The surveys were responded to by either writers or other, with little input from the people who know (agents and publishers). As I stated in the other post, the industry has not committed funds to identify statistics to quantify writer's income.I don't remember either. I haven't yet finished reading the report but this report is about literary fiction.... It makes a difference to me. It's a whole different undefinable, sometimes inflated -- animal. I thought your post was about all books--the entire market. Unless I've already forgotten.
I have to know. Do you have a mirror on your desk?
I made a couple posts if memory serves. Mine was about all books, the study used general fiction to measure literature, (that's a failure on it's own, since general fiction includes literature, but literature is only a small percentage of the genre). The numbers presented in the study do include all sales in a lot of their analysis. The surveys were responded to by either writers or other, with little input from the people who know (agents and publishers). As I stated in the other post, the industry has not committed funds to identify statistics to quantify writer's income.
The study appears to be a political tool to solicit discussion in parliament and entice addition social programs for writers. I can't put that down, because writers do need as much support as possible.
Bang on, @Amber. Literary fiction + literature is still a fraction of general fiction. Do the numbers align? I don't know. Our sales indicate they may, but we operate one store. On a global scale, I don't know.Is literary fiction the same thing as literature? I don't think so. Literature might be literary fiction + time. You know .. sort of like tragedy + time = comedy. Anyway... I think general fiction is the closest we're going to get from our point of view to knowing what might become literature.
I agree. That is the issue with raising additional assistance for writers. Members of parliament challenge bills, demanding accurate numbers. There are no accurate numbers. This is the challenge for the authors of this study.No, I don't imagine they have committed funds to identify statistics to quantify writer's income. When and if someone does ... in this new environment ... it will be an impressive feat. I picture it as being prohibitively expensive and labor intensive. Even if you get authors to willingly participate and report their income to the study, the information would have to be verified. I supposed perhaps IRS could gather this sort of information (in the US). But.... I can't imagine how that would work out. What would it take to get the IRS to hand that information over and considering this information would undoubtedly be adjusted ... it's still not accurate.
That is good news. But "if" these publishers are vanity press publishers, it can push writers' income into the red. There's always a mix of good and bad.The continuing rise of new independent publishers...there's a piece of good news.