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Location: Dallas, Texas | Chris and I were looking at some stats and thought you might be interested in them too. The new site will have a permanent stats page that will include these -- amongst a host of other stats -- all tricked-out in pie charts and graphs and images, etc. so everyone can see where we're at and how much our community is growing. BOOKS
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Total: 43,509 - SF: 21,579
- Fantasy: 19,223
- Horror: 5,293
Book Awards: 29
Book Lists: 51
AUTHORS
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Total: 8,208 - Male: 4,907
- Female: 3,219
- Non-binary: 78
PUBLISHERS
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Total: 1,716
MEMBERS
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Total: 7,696 Member Reads: 478,135 - Male Authored: 373,483
- Female Authored: 121,502
- Non-binary Authored: 1,690
Member Reads by Book Type:
- Novel: 413,853
- Collection: 18,662
- Novella: 15,295
- Omnibus: 8,024
- Short Story: 7,702
- Novelette: 5,866
- Anthology: 4,136
- Graphic Novel: 3,089
- Non-Fiction: 987
- Light Novel: 280
- Miscellaneous: 194
- Poem: 39
- Play Script: 8
Reviews: 13,799 | |
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| Interesting!
If possible, it would be neat to see the top 10 read for each type (except for novels). Could Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas be the #1 Short Story?
It looks like there may be a few issues with the numbers in the Book Types breakdown:
- Novels @ 413, 853 is high - this is almost ten times the total number of books (43,509).
- Even excluding Novels, the total of the remaining 12 types is 64,282 - again greater than the total number of books.
- Omnibus @ 8,024 seems high - this would mean that more than one sixth of all book records are omnibuses. Another way of looking at Omnibuses: most Omnibuses contain two or more Novels/Collections, so, at a minimum, there are 8,024 x 3 = 24,072, leaving less than 20k for Novels/Collections that have not been included in an Omnibus, as well as all the short fiction, Anthologies, Non-Fiction, Light Novels, etc. I'd guess the total to be no more than 500 or so.
- The same issue for Novellas/Short Stories/Novelettes. The total of these three is 28,863, which would represent 66% of all book records, which seems high.
- Graphic Novel @ 3,089 also seems high - we're very picky on Graphic Novels - they almost never get in unless they are award nominated or are on a list. I'd guess the total here to be no greater than 100-200.
- Light Novel @ 280 is low. Skimming the Original Japanese publication page, there looks to be around 1,500 Light Novels.
Looking forward to seeing the stat page! | |
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Location: California | Will children's and young adult books be searchable by tag? Also, if our total books are 43,509 where are the other 360,000 books coming from? I really like the idea of a permanent stats page. Will there be short story awards, anthology and short story collection award? I am sooo looking forward to the next generation of WWE. | |
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How about some stats...