Well, in Canada that 500 is probably about right, except for the
Atwoods, Ondaatjes, & a few others; but some do get a second printing.
It's hard to know exactly. I know that at NeWest we can do a few more
with someone who has already sold fairly well, but how often does that
happen, even with a prize-winning book, such as Vancouver Walking.
Doug
On 26-Sep-08, at 7:27 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> In Oz, 300 used to be the average across the nation for sales of a
> single
> author poetry book. That may have gone up in the last decade, but
> not by
> much. 500 is an average print run. That's with 21 million
> population. Damn
> few, ain't it. How do other countries go in this regard?
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