How Many Books Are There?

According to Google, the world contains about 129,864,880 books. Google calculated this number by combining duplicate entries from a data base of nearly one billion raw, bibliographic records and by eliminating about an additional 16.5 million non-books that had records in Google’s raw data base.

Some of the links above may be “affiliate links.” If you make a purchase or sign up for a service through one of these links, I may receive a small commission from the seller. This process involves no additional cost to you and helps defray the costs of making content like this available. For more information, please see these affiliate disclosures.


2 responses to “How Many Books Are There?”

  1. thinkhardthinkwell Avatar
    thinkhardthinkwell

    I wonder how many physical copies of books there are in the world? How could one go about estimating?

    1. David Stark Avatar

      That’s a very good question . . . one that sounds like a good informatics dissertation. 😉

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.


Posted

by