Book Sales Visualised
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This document compares the global book sales of some of the world's biggest authors to real-world lengths and structures. It finds that 2 billion book sales stacked end to end would be: - Over 15,000 miles long, enough to go around the world 1.25 times - Over half the length of the Great Wall of China - Long enough to make 5 Great Sphinxes or slightly more than the equatorial diameter of Mars - Longer than the Nile River or 263 times the height of the 98 tallest buildings in New York combined - The distance from Cornwall, England to New York City - Enough books to build the Great Pyramid of Giza
Book Sales Visualised
- 1. *SALESINMILESISCALCULATEDBASEDONTHESPINEOFANAVERAGEBOOKBEING1INCHTHICK NOTE:EACHBOOKINTHESTACKREPRESENTS4MILLIONBOOKSSOLD WHATDOES2BillionBOOK SALESLOOK LIKE? looklike? Whatdoes2Billion BOOK SALES Weoftenhearthatabookhassold‘5millioncopies’or even‘20millioncopies’...butwhatexactlywould20 millionbookslooklikeiftheywerestackedendtoend? Lovereading.co.ukwantedtofindout,sowecompared theglobalsalesofsomeoftheplanet’sbiggestauthors- wehopeyouliketheresults. 31565.69 31565.69 5523.01 5129.44 4734.87 3156.56 1576.28 1.25TIMES AROUND THEWORLD OR1/7OFTHEWAY TO THEMOON THELENGTH OFTHE GREATWALLOFCHINA ENOUGH TO MAKE 5GREATSPHINXES ORALITTLEMORE THAN THEEQUITORIAL DIAMETEROFMARS THELENGTH OF THENILE OR263XTHE98TALLEST BUILDINGSIN NEW YORK PUTTOGETHER CORNWALL TO NEW YORK ENOUGH TO BUILD THEGREATPYRAMID OFGIZA DesignbySofiaM