[benastan]

Source on fiction selling better than non-fiction?

I can't think of any explanation for a book written by an early female employee at Facebook receiving little attention other than a clear judgment about the value of the author's voice.

[lutusp]

> Source on fiction selling better than non-fiction?

I'm not the OP, but I think the claim is ambiguous at best:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/fi...

	                   2010	           2011	         % Change
    Adult Nonfiction	271,518,000	263,030,000	-3.1%
    Adult Fiction	194,775,000	160,336,000	-17.7
    Juvenile Nonfiction	36,931,000	35,799,000	-3.0
    Juvenile Fiction	151,116,000	143,316,000	-5.2

Based on that statistic, nonfiction outsells fiction among adults, but among juveniles it's the other way around.

[moocowduckquack]

Those figures are only for print books, on ebooks fiction massively outsells non-fiction, which is where the 17.7 percent drop in adult fiction sales in print are coming from in your figures. http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/e-book-fans-d...

It is hard to get good figures overall, but if you include both print and ebook, it seems to be about 60% fiction and 40% non fiction.