Do Literary Books Sell Fewer Copies than Genre Books?

<p>If you're simply here for a quicky answer to the question Do Literary Books Sell Fewer Copies than Genre Books? the answer at first blush seems to be a messy no. But Betteridge's law of headlines could have told you that. The question is why. Because we can answer the question so many ways: taxonomically mathematically philosophically etc.</p><p></p><p>When you look closer the answer isn't what you expect. Even if you expect the no because you know Betteridge's law. This is a far more complicated question than it seems at first blush perhaps even unanswerable by the time we get to the end of this journey which I argue is absolutely worth taking because of every issue and idea it touches. If we were comparing American car sales to subscription French equestrian lessons we could probably make a pretty quick dollar-to-dollar comparison. But the moment you start saying something like sales of fast cars well I have to ask does this include Geo Metros? Not at first blush until you look under the hood and see the Geo Metro Turbo out classing a souped up Honda Civic on the racetrack.</p><p></p><p>So it gets messy.</p>