The Open Library project may have some information on this.
Alan
On 8/3/07, Simon Tanner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have two questions for a publication I'm collaborating on:
>
> 1. Any idea how many books are available on Google books at the moment?
>
> 2. How many unique printed books (i.e. titles not copies) are there
> are in the world? OCLC has 85 million records on WorldCat, but
> that's not all books. I've read one estimate that suggests that
> WorldCat has 48 million books catalogued, and someone called Kevin
> Kelly claims there are 32 million unique books.
>
> All ideas gratefully received and i will post a summary to the list.
>
> Best regards,
> Simon
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Best wishes
Alan Pritchard MPhil FCLIP MBCS
Tel: +44 (0)1202 417477
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