Considering the number of new indie releases each week, and considering the couple of decades that they have existed, I would put in the millions, not thousands.tensen said:50,000 would be a lowball guess based on numbers of titles that Iuniverse and some of the other companies used to do a year. But considering the number of people that might throw up a short story, or some other product, I would think that the number is in the hundreds of thousands.
Fantasma said:There are actually only 48 of us, but we have a lot of pen names.
Hundreds of thousands, and we've only seen the tip of the iceberg so far. Everyone from eight to eighty who has access to a computer and wants to get rich quick is writing on nights and weekends with dreams of yachts, mansions and riches. I know at least a dozen people who are working on a debut novel that will instantly catapult them to the top of the charts. Whether or not they will ever complete it is another question, but every one of them believes that writing is the easiest thing in the world to do. After all, they've been writing since they first began attending school.cblewgolf said:Including some that are trad pubbed as well, how many English speaking independent authors do you think have published at least 1 fiction or non-fiction piece? Just curious how big this boom is and I have no idea.
Interesting. That doesn't even seem to have them all. Also when counting indie authors, that won't do, since it has trad pubbed ones as well.Joe_Nobody said:You can count the authors on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/other?redirect=true&rh=n%3A283155&bbn=283155&pickerToList=lbr_one_browse-bin&ie=UTF8&qid=1361285490&rd=1
Let me know after your done...I curious what the total number is.
The total of ALL e-books in the Kindle store including traditionally published (both fiction and non-fiction) is 1,800,000, so that is hardly likely.DarkScribe said:Considering the number of new indie releases each week, and considering the couple of decades that they have existed, I would put in the millions, not thousands.
From the members list, it looks like 22,000 users have posted at least once here.Bards and Sages (Julie) said:And I'd venture to say most of them hang out here at KB.![]()
UNESCO claims that there are currently 2.2 million new titles published annually - worldwide. Most of those are eBooks.JRTomlin said:The total of ALL e-books in the Kindle store including traditionally published (both fiction and non-fiction) is 1,800,000, so that is hardly likely.
And since quite a few of us have multiple books out...
It's hard to say. I would guess a couple of hundred thousand, maybe, but that is a wild guess.
I really don't care about UNESCO's book count. That many aren't published on Kindle.DarkScribe said:UNESCO claims that there are currently 2.2 million new titles published annually - worldwide. Most of those are eBooks.
I think that over the past decade alone the number of indie authors will definitely number in the millions.
Even if each author publishes ten books they will still number in the millions. I think that most authors write one or two books, not ten.
No, not on Kindle. That would be more than 6000 new titles per day. Once you hit publish you would only have a half hour before your book had more than one hundred newer titles swamping it. Amazon's New Releases list would have to auto-scroll.JRTomlin said:I really don't care about UNESCO's book count. That many aren't published on Kindle.
Those are the ones I am assuming the OP was asking about.
.Joe_Nobody said:You can count the authors on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/other?redirect=true&rh=n%3A283155&bbn=283155&pickerToList=lbr_one_browse-bin&ie=UTF8&qid=1361285490&rd=1 Let me know after your done...I curious what the total number is.