May 4, 2007

Heroic Labor - washingtonpost.com

The publicity director at a major New York publisher once told me there probably aren’t more than 80,000 regular readers of literary fiction in America.

A well-received book of poetry might sell 2,000 copies.

Ron Charles is a senior editor of the Washington Post Book World, so presumably he knows what he is talking about!

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