Spain is surprising. I know they have great classic lit but modern too?
I’m not a native speaker, does published just means printed or does it imply it was originally written there? Also are numbers for titles or copies? Sorry if these are dumb questions.
This shows how important is to have a bigger market for your cultural output.
UK can produce for all the English countries and for many people that speaks the language. Spain does the same.
It’s a lost opportunity for Europe that it’s so fragmented when it comes to languages. The USA/UK combo rules the world when it comes to culture. Maybe China, with its massive population also can compete in that league.
This just makes me sad.
I once read that in Iceland writing is so popular than Icelanders want one day to build a statue for the first Icelander who has never written a single book in his/her lifetyime.
Quality before quantity
I’m surprised that Lithuania and Latvia has published more books than France and Italy.
And what’s up with Slovenia, a tiny country has published more books than most big European countries (except UK).
There are too many books being published. We should stop publishing new books until everyone has caught up with existing ones.
Somewhere I heard that Iceland has the highest number of published authors per capita… too bad they are missing from this statistics
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Source: https://jakubmarian.com/number-of-books-published-per-year-per-capita-by-country-in-europe/
Spain is surprising. I know they have great classic lit but modern too?
I’m not a native speaker, does published just means printed or does it imply it was originally written there? Also are numbers for titles or copies? Sorry if these are dumb questions.
We only need one book in Austria. The Language of Violence: Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” https://www.amazon.de/dp/0820481874/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_4JAB4Q7QBMHX3YSPWSE4
Damn the neighbour Slovenians like to write.
Yeah! Number 1 in Scandinavia
This shows how important is to have a bigger market for your cultural output.
UK can produce for all the English countries and for many people that speaks the language. Spain does the same.
It’s a lost opportunity for Europe that it’s so fragmented when it comes to languages. The USA/UK combo rules the world when it comes to culture. Maybe China, with its massive population also can compete in that league.
This just makes me sad.
I once read that in Iceland writing is so popular than Icelanders want one day to build a statue for the first Icelander who has never written a single book in his/her lifetyime.
Quality before quantity
I’m surprised that Lithuania and Latvia has published more books than France and Italy.
And what’s up with Slovenia, a tiny country has published more books than most big European countries (except UK).
There are too many books being published. We should stop publishing new books until everyone has caught up with existing ones.
Somewhere I heard that Iceland has the highest number of published authors per capita… too bad they are missing from this statistics