Do you want to learn more about books?
Do you love to read or write books?
Needless to say that writers are good readers too!
Isn’t it a wonder that agents like White Magic Studios, who helps self-publishing are on the rise! There are many more wonders in the world of books.
Though you may be full-fledged pro of reading and writing, these random facts about books will surprise you.
Let’s round up some of the most interesting facts about books:
- The Amazon publishing services is a great way to start your marketing campaign.
- According to a study conducted by Google, 129,864,880 books were published till 2010 (self-publishers not considered).
- Authors’ name weren’t printed on the covers as is done by self-publishers today. Reason? Covers were artwork; covered with drawings, leather, even gold & (more intriguing) in human skin.
- The most expensive book- Codex Leicester- the diary of science by Leonardo Da Vinci was sold at a whopping price of 30.8 million dollars to Bill Gates.
- Bibliosmia is the term used for the action;book lovers’ loving the smell of old books.Strangely enough, some fear that they might run out of reading material; which is termed “Abibliophobia”. People who always carry a book with them are known as “Book bosomed”.
- Portuguese library Bibliote caJoanina houses a swarm of batsas its army for pest control, who feed on book-eating worms; for their human book-worms’ convenience.
- E-book conversion can whoop up your sales many-fold.
- The 3 most read books are- The Holy Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Harry Potter.
- “Alice in Wonderland” was written based on a real 10 year old girl named Alice Liddell whose family were close friends with the author Lewis Carroll.
- You must have heard that the longest sentence consists of 823 words in the famous book “Les Miserables”. But did you know that the longest title of a book contains 3777 words written by VityalaYethindra for his book “The development of the heart…….” (Find out what makes it so long.)
- The largest unpublished book in the world measures 16.40 feet x 26.44 feet, which is “This is the Prophet Mohamed”; the longest novel being “Remembrance of things past” of 9609000 characters including spaces.
- The 26th president of the USA, Roosevelt reads at least one book a day.
- The oldest operating bookstore is in Lisbon.
- With Kindle self-publishing, it is easier and inexpensive to self-publish a book.
- The longest epic poem ever written is the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian Sanskrit epic written 7000 years ago & took around 600 years to complete it.
- India is the country that reads the most- about 10.7 hours in every week.
There are so many facts about reading books that you can keep digging on & on. If you read 20 minutes a day, then you would have read 1.8 million words a year. You can read books in many forms including audio-books and e-books. The person who draws for the books is known as an illustrator.
The best fact is that people who read a lot are likely to become more successful.