tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post4801136815213500493..comments2023-08-13T11:58:31.588-04:00Comments on Ghulf Genes: New Titles Over TimeADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-44063519145885756662011-10-31T17:02:00.832-04:002011-10-31T17:02:00.832-04:00I would guess that what we're really seeing th...I would guess that what we're really seeing there is a lagging measure of the fixed cost-per-title for a book: editing, typesetting, etc. Editorial and production costs always struck me as the real gatekeeper on the decision whether to publish a book. So perhaps the rising numbers in the 60s through 80s is a result of big impact that improved and digital production processes -- computerized typesetting, etc. -- had on the publishing production process. The commercial threshold for printing a book was lowered, and so it made increasing sense to publish books that would by design have smaller markets and print runs. My corollary guess would be that the growth in titles per million has skyrocketed in the 1990s and 2000s.Patioboaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01600842825460753192noreply@blogger.com