What percent of books go unnoticed?

1 week ago 13

I once made an argument to my friend that publishing doesn’t have to result in mass popularity or significant notoriety. I posited that if you look around your local library or Barnes & Nobel, you’re going to find many books there that may have a niche audience, but neither you, nor most people, have discovered yet.

In hindsight, I’m not sure if I’m the best judge of this since I never go out of my way to buy and read a book. On the other hand, I’d argue that the greatest popularity threshold for anything to cross is to get noticed by the people who weren’t looking for it.

I’d like to ask the literature enthusiasts out there: do most books (not written by biggest names in literature) get a small audience and die with only that? What constitutes a proper time in the limelight for a book and what percent of books in stores and libraries get it?

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