• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s ‘1 in 10 Icelanders will write and publish at least one novel at some point in their life’, not ‘one book written for every 10 Icelanders’.

    It’s a stat you’ll see floating around the internet, though I haven’t seen the ultimate source.

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      1 year ago

      Yes it’s deliberately worded to be vague it could really mean either with no source, I did some research and most of what I found was multiple books are being published by people, with that same 1/10 being repeated, didn’t look into publishing rates or anything yet though.