: How many books by new authors get published every year? I have heard figures like 100,000 - 250,000 books are published every year, but this probably includes already established authors. Are

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Warning: Sources links aren't English.

After some research, I have found this site which approximately said

In France [...] classical edition have its constraints and can publish only between 500 and 1 000 new authors per year.

It's not an official number, but it could make a good start point.
In the same time, around 69 000 books are published each year in France (according to registration of copyright, here).

If we keep the same percentage, for 250 000 books published each year, between 1 800 and 3 600 are books from new authors.

I know they're is a lot of weaknesses in my calculation: the first number come from a marketing announcement and doesn't include self-publishing when the second one include them, so the true number is probably higher.

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I've seen this question asked on other sites and the answer is always, No one has any good statistics on that.

Some ballpark thinking:

As we do have reasonably reliable statistics that about 300,000 new titles are published each year, that's clearly the upper bound.

Assuming that most authors publish more than one book -- and clearly there are some out there who churn them out -- most of those 300,000 are probably not by new authors.

So the number of new authors each year is likely in the tens of thousands.

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This site has done some research into how many people are actually writing books seriously with a view to getting them published. The answer is a little under 1 million, with a turnaround averaging 3.5 years, meaning that is the period of time on average they stick at writing.

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I have not seen any statistics on how many new authors enter the market each year. The closest statistics I could find were from Bowker Info about how many books are published each year from 2002-2010. It breaks the information down by category.

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