According to Google, the world contains about 129,864,880 books. Google calculated this number by combining duplicate entries from a data base of nearly one billion raw, bibliographic records and by eliminating about an additional 16.5 million non-books that had records in Google’s raw data base.
How Many Books Are There?
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2 responses to “How Many Books Are There?”
I wonder how many physical copies of books there are in the world? How could one go about estimating?
That’s a very good question . . . one that sounds like a good informatics dissertation. 😉
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