Talk:Books published per country per year

message: The text of this article implies that the data are from UNESCO. However, it looks like none of the more recent figures are from UNESCO, and I cannot find any book production statistics on UNESCO's statistics website.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.92.189.185 (talk) 21:06, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: [Misleading Text on Sources]

message: This list is incorrect.  It is missing substantial contributions by Latin America, including Brazil and Argentina, which are in the top 20.
* Also missing South Korea.  - AlexLibman 21:48, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Any information based on the UNESCO stats referenced at the bottom of the page would seem to be non-fiction only, looking at the various categories of book that UNESCO includes.  Lokicarbis (talk) 12:50, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-Fiction Only? 

message: Comparing figures from one country in 1991 and another in 2005 is abusrd and usless. If there is no decently contemporary figures the page should be deleted. Even if there is, the figures should be done per capita as well.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.165.181.194 (talk) 23:56, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Make that 1990-2019. Three decade difference, wew. The entire re-edition/revised/total mess isn't helping much either 185.163.103.83 (talk) 18:12, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is useless 

message: A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries.  Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 12:25, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Discussion

message: Where is Romania in the list???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nagyusha (talk • contribs) 00:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Romania

message: Is it just me, or would formatting this page something like the example below make it easier to read?  At the moment, the left-justification of everything makes it hard (on my eyes at least) to quickly separate out the pertinent numbers.  This formatting keeps all of the list columns separate and right-justifies the most important column so that the magnitude of the number is very clear.  Anyway, if this (or a modified version) seems preferable, I'll make the change.  Best regards, --PLUMBAGO 11:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative formatting? 

message: like no ref to this http://www.bowker.com/en-US/aboutus/press_room/2012/pr_06052012.shtml  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.51.31 (talk) 22:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: seriously outdated and lacking crucial info

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message: This article has used references from sources like state-run Raja News and IRINN for Iran, which are not reliable sources. As I've given up editing in Wikipedia, I wrote here to inform you to improve sources. 91.99.21.205 (talk) 19:49, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreliable Sources (Iran) 

message: What about other countries? No book at all? I am surprised that the least developed country, Myanmar ranked 46. The reference link is dead. 404.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.81.67.182 (talk) 02:14, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed the dead link. emijrp (talk) 17:15, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: The list is incomplete

message: The source given for Portuguese data reffers to Spain. Come on!--von Tamm (talk) 14:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Portugal

message: 40.000 books in Turkey every year is a highly inaccurate figure. The number is given by ministry of culture. Such numbers are often given by officials without sufficient evidence. Even so would most of this figure involve leaflets, religious or touristic works of state agencies which are far from being a book as one would understand.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.55.184.20 (talk) 20:26, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  UN or local information? 

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message: Hi, looking back through the entries on the talk page, and my own observations, this article appears to struggle from a lack of specific constraints. It needs to be better defined along these lines:
# total number of books published, or per capita? Or should we give both? 
#: If we do want to give both, there will be many countries for which we cannot find a secondary source which states it.
# Do we include self-published books?
# Do we include fiction/non-fiction?
# Do we include digital-only books?
# Do we include new editions or only new titles?
# Do we unify them by year? ie when we update the list, every country is updated.
# Or do we dispense with all of those, and only use a pre-chosen specific measure?
#:For example, the IPA–WIPO survey (no self-published, some specific topics aren't included), ISBNs (most non-self-published books), legal deposit surveys (generally no self-published, and only some countries would include digital-only), etc
# If so, should we report multiple?
We should also state that just because a country is not listed it doesn't mean they don't publish books.
My view is that we should report a variety of statistics. 
:EG
:Section: ISBN
:Section: IPA-WIPO survey
And in the relevant section, explain the limitations of that data. 
A good source for updating this article is "The Global Publishing Industry in 2018" which includes multiple stats and explains issues with them. https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4488
For now I'm going to make a section named ISBN and report its stats from that link. --Xurizuri (talk) 11:11, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  A stricter definition for inclusion 

message: Source for US and China ([3]: https://www.ingenta.com/blog-article/10/ipa-report-says-global-publishing-productivity-is-up-but-growth-is-down) is no longer available.
Υφ22 (talk) 01:29, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for US and China ([3]) is no longer available