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Books
Catégorie:
Fictions
Divers
Thread ID:
01468838
Message ID:
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>>Jeez. Stephen Hawkings' "A brief History of Time" sold around 10 million copies.
>>
>>I replied to Tamar, my mistake...the poll reported that Atlas was the 2nd most influential....my (big) mistake.
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>>Having said that, the sale of over 1.5 million copies in the last 3 years, considering the size of the book and the content, is amazing.
>
>But look at some of the books on the list:
>http://www.amazon.com/Library-Congress-Survey-Influential-Books/lm/133GLJVXVIBLN
>
>Interesting books some of them, but the most influential? Other than a couple (the 1st of course being one of them)I think not...

That list seems pretty biased towards titles Amazon thinks it can sell :)

No "The Art of War"? No "The Prince"?
Regards. Al

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