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I did a little more with the statistics shown in the next blog to demonstrate just what can be derived from such numbers by comparing them to similar Amazon.com calculations for what I believe to be the most popular selling book about online bookselling. The results really surprised me and I have posted them below for those statistics available for both books.
1) Words: Online Bookselling has 2.84 times as many words as the other popular book being sold on Amazon.com.
2) Characters: Online Bookselling has 2.81 times as many characters as the other popular book being sold on Amazon.com.
3) Sentences: Online Bookselling has 1.44 times as many sentences as the other popular book being sold on Amazon.com.
4) Words per Sentence: Online Bookselling has 1.77 times as many words per sentence as the other popular book being sold on Amazon.com.
5) Flesch Kincaid Grade Level (sometimes called a Fog Index): The two books differed very little here indicating that both authors write at a very similar level of complexity. I have been told before that the ideal value for this is 12 when writing for a general audience. My book came in at 11.6 and the other book at 11.5. This really surprised me because it is very difficult to get this close to 12.
6) Words per Dollar: Online Bookselling gives you 1.89 times as many words per dollar than the other popular book being sold on Amazon.com.
7) Words per Ounce: Online Bookselling gives you 1.87 times as many words per ounce than the other popular book being sold on Amazon.com.
8) Online Bookselling costs 50% more than the other popular book being sold on Amazon.com.
9) Online Bookselling has 36% more pages than the other popular book being sold on Amazon.com.
10) The area per page (square inches) of Online Bookselling is 54 in2 (6" x 9") and the other popular book selling on Amazon.com is 46.44 in2, (8.6" x 5.4"), thus, Online Bookselling has only 16% more area per page. This substantiates the use of a large font in the other book.
Since I own a copy of the other book I can tell you that it has:
0 Graphs 0 Tables 0 Pictures 0 Figures of any kind
From all of this it should be apparent that:
1) The other book is printed in a very large font on smaller pages
2) Online Bookselling gives you: a) Almost three times as many words and characters as the other book selling on Amazon.com for an increase in cost of only 50%. This equates to getting twice as much in terms of words and characters for each dollar you spend. b) Infinitely more graphs than the other book (and they are useful too) c) Infinitely more tables (you can see where the numbers actually come from). d) Infinitely more pictures (and if they are worth a thousand words each imagine the size Online Bookselling would be) e) Infinitely more figures of any kind since the other book has only large text.
I do not want to give the name of the other author or the title of the book because I am not trying to put the other book down. I just wanted to demonstrate what these types of statistics can imply. The other book is in fact well written and I do not want to insinuate that it is not worth what it is selling for. At the same time, I wanted to demonstrate that Online Bookselling is priced very competitively and the statistics suggest it has substantially more information. You are visitor:
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