• themeatbridge
      37•1 year ago

      I think there are many writers in general. There are 300,000 people, and 1 in 10 will publish a book in their lifetimes.

      • @schmidtster
        16•1 year ago

        Okay, but one guy writing 1000 books would skew that number substantially.

        You get 20 doing 10 that’s still a large portion changing the statistics.

        Is it actually 1/10 or is just 30000 books from the population.

          • @Pipoca
            18•1 year ago

            Keep in mind, that’s just the people famous enough to have English Wikipedia articles.

            There’s no way 1 in 10 people in Iceland are full-time professional authors publishing a book every year.

            In the US, most authors I personally know write for fun and have a novel or few on something like wattpad and they’ve made exactly $0 on it.

            • Flying Squid
              1•1 year ago

              Yep. My mom has written multiple published novels but she considers it something she does for fun more than anything.

        • @Pipoca
          12•1 year ago

          That’s ‘1 in 10 Icelanders will write and publish at least one novel at some point in their life’, not ‘one book written for every 10 Icelanders’.

          It’s a stat you’ll see floating around the internet, though I haven’t seen the ultimate source.

          • @schmidtster
            2•1 year ago

            Yes it’s deliberately worded to be vague it could really mean either with no source, I did some research and most of what I found was multiple books are being published by people, with that same 1/10 being repeated, didn’t look into publishing rates or anything yet though.

    • @[email protected]English
      21•1 year ago

      When I visited (so take it with a grain of salt) a local (who was a friend of a friend and showed us around) said that culturally there is a lot of encouragement to be creative in various forms. Be interested if any Icelandic people would either confirm or deny this.