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(from Romance Writer's of America: http://www.rwanational.org/statistics/industry_stats.htm)

These statistics were compiled by RWA from Book Industry Study Group and American Bookseller Association reports, and from tallies in Ingram's catalogue of all book releases.

Romance generated $1.41 billion in sales in 2003.

There were 2,093 romance titles released in 2003.

Romance fiction comprises 18% of all books sold (not including children's books).

Romance fiction comprises 48.8% of all popular paperback fiction sold in North America.

Romance fiction comprises 33.8% of all popular fiction sold. (Different from above, this figure includes not just paperbacks, but hardcovers and trade-sized paperbacks as well.)

To compare:

Mystery/Detective/Suspense is 25.6% of popular fiction sales

General Fiction is 24.9% of popular fiction sales

Science Fiction/Fantasy is 6% of popular fiction sales

Religious, occult, westerns, male adventure, general history, adult and movie tie-ins was 9.7% of popular fiction sales

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