[Foundation-l] How many books are there in the world?

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A related link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons#Size_of_other_information_collections

2010/8/6 Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Tracy Poff <tracy.poff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> in particular, I didn't know that multiple books (entirely unrelated
> >>> books) have shared ISBNs. So, if nothing else, it might impact...
> >>>
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ISBN
> >>
> >> AFAIK, this is a fairly uncommon problem; I've never run across it in
> >> 6+ years of working with lots of books & library catalogs every day.
> >
> > It varies by publisher--for example, in my experience, Harlequin (a
> > publisher of romance novels) seems to have used all of its ISBNs *at
> > least* twice. It's a real problem, if you expect an ISBN to be a
> > unique ID for a book, and worse if you wanted to it be unique to
> > edition or so on. Well, it's a minor issue from out point of view, I
> > guess. How would Mediawiki scale to 130 million articles? Gotta cover
> > everything...
>
> The number of notable subjects covered in all those books is much much
> greater than  >> 130 million.
>
> Thanks,
> Pharos
>
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