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Think the novel is dead?  Far from it.  These are rough stats culled from various sources.  Numbers only refer to U.S. publications and tweets, and are based on 2009 figures.

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Methodology is as follows:

Words per day in books: based on Bowker’s stats of approx 1,000,000 books published in the U.S. in 2009.  An average length of 240 pages is assigned to traditionally published books and 50 pages to self-published books.  An average of 250 words per page assigned for all books.  (Data from Bowker’s and PWCwriters).

Tweets per day:  based on 2009 estimate of 32 million tweets per day, and a U.S. share of 1/3 of all worldwide tweets, and an average twitter message length of 15 words (data from Twitter and Oxford University Press).

Folks, I’m just having fun here.  The numbers are real, but it’s a back-of-the-envelope estimation [insert smiley face here].