Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:29:09 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] RE: [wsfa-forum] So out of the mainstream
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> strongl at sddc.army.mil 4/7/2006 12:06:41 PM >>>
>    "Who else on this planet is left [to read _The Da Vinci
>Code_]?"
>"This planet" must not be Earth.  Earth has a planetary population of
>roughly 6 billion people so 6 million copies in print means a
>readership of
>1/10 of 1 percent.  I'm in the majority on this one.

And if one limits it to those who read (not those who can read, but
actually make use of the skill...<g>)  ?

Anyway, the point of his commet was essentially, considering sales of
the book in hardcover, are there any *readers* out there left to sell it
to?

Apparently so.  I am somewhat amazed...

mjw