Я на форуме год, и уже затрудняюсь сосчитать, сколько раз поднималась тема тиражей.
Надоело, полез в англоязычный инет.
Что же происходит за бугром, где любой сочинитель, ясное дело, жрет черную икру ложками и гадит в золотой унитаз?
Наслаждаемся цитатами авторов и редакторов. Это из того, что сходу нагуглилось
There are many small and mid-sized publishers who are open to new writers. The problem with smaller publishers is that they don’t have the money and clout of a major publisher. Typically they will publish a print run of about
5000 books and try to sell those before they print more copies. Your chances of getting published with a smaller publisher is better (though you are still competing against many other novelists) but few of them can bring you the royalties required to make a living.
While there are many, many variables involved in how much a writer makes when his or her novel is published, a good rule of thumb for estimating your profits is a dollar a book. That means that
you would have to sell 50,000 books a year in order to earn a solid living. While there are some people who publish multiple books a year, the typical novelist manages to produce a single book a year, so you would have to sell 50,000 copies of each book you publish, assuming that you find a publisher for your books.
While the Stephen Kings and J.K. Rowlings of this world have no trouble selling millions of books,
the typical novel sells about 5000 to 10,000 copies. Less than ten percent of published novelists manage to sell 50,000 copies or more of their book, and selling 50,000 copies of a book in no way guarantees that you will find a publisher for your next book.
The average book in America sells about 500 copies (Publishers Weekly, July 17, 2006). And average sales have since fallen much more. According to BookScan, which tracks most bookstore, online, and other retail sales of books, only 299 million books were sold in 2008 in the U.S. in all adult nonfiction categories combined.
The average U.S. book is now selling less than 250 copies per year and less than 3,000 copies over its lifetime.I'll add one anecdote that I've heard a number of times — though I can't cite its source, so it's worth what you're paying for it: 90% of all books published in the US never sell more than 100 copies.
A good NLP Book published by a mainstream publisher sells 1000 copies per year, every year for 10 years.
An average NLP Book published by a mainstream publisher sells 500 copies per year, every year for 10 years
The third NLP book in the series sells 3600 copies a year even if it is self published and not sold through book distributors
I've been in the editorial and publishing business for 30+ years, and even when I was a staff employee with a publishing firm, I didn't have access to actual sales figures. I did gather the better-selling titles were just in their hundreds per month. This was the UK in the 1980s, by the way, if that holds any meaningfulness for today. Only the school publishing market generated sales anywhere close to the thousands per month -- but that's because of many titles being compulsory coursebooks.
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Краткий перевод: везде примерно та же хрень, что и в РФ. Автор средней руки может рассчитывать на начальный тираж в 5000. Жить с таких тиражей, понятно, нельзя. Жить можно, если вы в год продаете от 50,000 книг. Но авторов с подобными продажами, как ни странно, не так уж много. Коллективно молиться на мультимиллионеров С.Кинга и Дж.Роулингз не стоит. Так что ностальгия по временам СССР, когда государство, а не рынок решали, чего и сколько печатать, занятие совершенно зряшное.
Да, и нельзя не отметить, что по-аглицки в мире говорит в пять раз больше людей, чем по-русски.
Другое дело, что сейчас и в реалиях ХХI века в РФ идет неуклонное падение. Пятнадцать лет назад первый тираж начинающего автора мог составлять 15-20 тысяч экземпляров, пять лет назад 9-12 тысяч, сейчас 3000-5000 максимум. Расплодилось нас, графоманов
И не надо с больной головы на здоровую перекладывать. Ей-богу, мне ваши домыслы уже надоело комментировать. Вы, похоже, сами с собой разговариваете. Или с выдуманным Монком. Но не со мной. 
