stats
Does anybody have an idea where I might find reliable statistics on how many people living in the US right now have actually had fiction published? I'd be interested in that figure for other countries as well, but I'd really like to know about the US. Ideally I'd like to know how many people have published
-- one novel
-- more than one novel
-- one short story
-- multiple short stories (in collected volumes, too) but no novels
-- multiple short stories and one or more novels
For my purposes, I'd exclude self-published work. Now, these figures might not be available from anybody, anywhere, but I'll continue to wonder. There so much in the publishing business which happens out of sight, in an ignore-that-man-behind-the-curtain way.