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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #60 on: June 24, 2009, 11:38:21 PM »
No other book has made an industry of interpretting a book so it is kinda obvious...
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #61 on: June 25, 2009, 12:47:37 AM »
Quote from: mtlhddoc2 on June 24, 2009, 11:00:29 PM
I find it hard to believe they are tracking 2 million titles and put her in first place...   i mean, noone teacks the best selling book of all time any more? LOL (its the Bible, for those that didnt know)

"Best selling of all time" means "Has sold more over the years than any other book."  It does not mean "best selling book at every given moment."
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #62 on: June 25, 2009, 02:59:51 AM »
It's kinda a given Jade...I mean it's in the wording for any who care to think
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #63 on: June 25, 2009, 06:48:47 AM »
Quote from: Champion Kaz on June 25, 2009, 02:59:51 AM
It's kinda a given Jade...I mean it's in the wording for any who care to think

No, not quite.  There's a world of difference between "of all time" and "at all times".

It's kind of the like the difference between "he lived as the poor" and "he lived near the poor".
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #64 on: June 25, 2009, 12:31:41 PM »
Corporate purchases alone would push the bible into "at all times" territory.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #65 on: June 26, 2009, 09:15:12 AM »
There was a short lived industry in commentaries etc. supporting Lord of the Rings.

Is it just me or is that pic on the USA Today article far more frightening than most serial killers?
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #66 on: June 26, 2009, 10:26:46 AM »
Quote from: mtlhddoc2 on June 25, 2009, 12:31:41 PM
Corporate purchases alone would push the bible into "at all times" territory.

Do you have any statistics to back this up?  I really don't think very many people buy the Bible that often...
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #67 on: June 28, 2009, 03:43:15 AM »
A lot of churches provide bibles at each seat in the auditorium.  These tend to wear out and have to be replaced fairly often.  I think that's what was meant by corporate purchases.  The Gideons have some stats on bible distribution (not limited to their own).
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #68 on: June 28, 2009, 07:58:21 AM »
I'd be interested in seeing them.

Also:  I think the ISBN has to be the same for it to be considered the same "book" for sales chart purposes.

For example, are two different translations to be considered the same book?  What if one is a translation with lots of commentary?  Etc.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #69 on: June 28, 2009, 08:10:45 AM »
Well technically the King James Authorized Version is the property of the Church of England and, whoever prints it, it's still the same book.  There are similar issues with the Hebrew text in the form of a kosher scroll.  But yeah I think the Gideons do tend to merge all versions and editions into one lump for purposes of statistics. Except they do distinguish the volumes with their logo and copyrighted forwards, which by license can never legally be sold.

The only way I've ever encountered the Gideon stats is in the pamphlets they hand out when they are itenerating for donations.  [url link=http://www.gideons.org/?HP=USA&LevelID=5&sc_lang=en]The Gideons International[/url]
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #70 on: June 28, 2009, 08:35:24 AM »
LOL, everyone likes to hate on Meyer.

All I can say is, Damn, I wish I could have a tenth of her success, for just one year. I'd be set for life  :D

I much prefer her Vampires fans over the majority of vamp fans I've dealt with over the years . . .

If anyone is curious, I think Stephanie made over 50 million in 2008, which is like 0.2% of the total book sales in America (24-something billion).

Then again, Dan Brown makes more . . .
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #71 on: June 28, 2009, 09:25:23 AM »
Ugh. Live Action, Masquerade types.  What a horror (as in the pimply teenybopper in a wool cloak with stakes and a hammer chasing through a convention center trying to tackle a middle-aged ingenue in fishnets and and a black pvc opera cape with fake teeth).
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #72 on: June 29, 2009, 01:02:23 PM »
Quote from: Renoard on June 28, 2009, 08:10:45 AM
Well technically the King James Authorized Version is the property of the Church of England and, whoever prints it, it's still the same book.  There are similar issues with the Hebrew text in the form of a kosher scroll.  But yeah I think the Gideons do tend to merge all versions and editions into one lump for purposes of statistics. Except they do distinguish the volumes with their logo and copyrighted forwards, which by license can never legally be sold.

The only way I've ever encountered the Gideon stats is in the pamphlets they hand out when they are itenerating for donations.  [url link=http://www.gideons.org/?HP=USA&LevelID=5&sc_lang=en]The Gideons International[/url]

Technically, in the US, the King James Authorized Version of the Bible is in the Public Domain, and as such, the Church of England does not own it (unless you're talking about some recent CoE reprinting I'm unaware of, in which case that specific reprinting would belong to them).  Furthermore, each edition of that Bible, published with a separate ISBN, is a separate book as far as a publisher is concerned.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #73 on: September 15, 2009, 06:06:07 AM »
Aren't we talking authorship here, not ownership?  Should be obvious.

Now that you mention it, my favorite author: God.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #74 on: September 15, 2009, 08:08:20 PM »
Why must people make everything controversal...I will refrain from saying anything further in hope that this topic is dropped.
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