If You Thought a 180,000-Title Universe Was Daunting Bowker has changed the methodology they use to count new titles issued every year, and the result has been a dramatic change upward in their estimates of titles published annually — which they now put at 291,920. No, that’s not a typo. That’s an incease of 120,000 over the old methodology and last year’s numbers (which some industry players thought there were inaccurately low), including “traditional print as well as on-demand titles.” But the high-water mark, under the recalibrated data, was in 2004, with 295,523 new titles issued. Having revised 2005’s numbers […]
