Well, Doug, if a Welsh book of new poems sells on average 1000 copies in a
population of Welsh-speakers of perhaps 250,000 then a book of new poems in
English would have to sell, in the UK alone, 240,000 copies to maintain the
same proportion (1 in 250, taking the UK population as 60 million)
On 21 February 2011 23:18, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> & in the end, neither sell much
>
> (but that's what we little presses do).
>
> Doug
> On 2011-02-21, at 3:48 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> > New Welsh language poetry outsells its English equivalents by a 3 to 1
> > margin:
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