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While your point stands, note that 60K are the number of symultaneous online users. Active subscriptions are on the low hundreds of thousands. While not in the league of WoW, it's still very respectable.

You may argue that in music the people have already spoken and that Lady Gaga (or whoever is all the rage these days) is it, or that the Da Vinci Code had set the direction for literature a few years ago. But there's a whole universe of tastes out there. Not only the mainstream is worth catering to.