Top 75 authors

—an unlikely (or perhaps all too likely) list, from LibraryThing's Zeitgeist ("More information than you need").

Top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (481,647), Stephen King (349,075), Terry Pratchett (281,182), J. R. R. Tolkien (228,569), C. S. Lewis (213,607), Neil Gaiman (211,912), William Shakespeare (187,864), Nora Roberts (176,875), Agatha Christie (163,853), Jane Austen (149,701), Stephenie Meyer (143,571), James Patterson (141,261), Isaac Asimov (141,013), Charles Dickens (133,315), John Grisham (124,866), Anne McCaffrey (119,486), Dan Brown (116,972), Orson Scott Card (116,820), Janet Evanovich (113,720), Kurt Vonnegut (111,193), Anne Rice (108,568), Douglas Adams (106,639), Dean Koontz (104,271), George Orwell (103,497), Robert A. Heinlein (101,887), Mercedes Lackey (99,382), John Steinbeck (98,782), Roald Dahl (97,234), Dr. Seuss (95,938), Laurell K. Hamilton (91,661), Charlaine Harris (90,628), Margaret Atwood (87,901), Anonymous (87,129), Robert Jordan (86,499), Mark Twain (84,890), Michael Crichton (84,391), Piers Anthony (83,487), Ernest Hemingway (82,488), Fyodor Dostoevsky (80,336), Lemony Snicket (79,915), George R. R. Martin (78,222), Philip Pullman (77,492), Haruki Murakami (77,039), Ray Bradbury (75,961), Suzanne Collins (75,031), Gabriel García Márquez (74,623), David Eddings (71,879), Bill Bryson (71,039), Tom Clancy (70,277), No Author (70,169), Jodi Picoult (69,923), Philip K. Dick (69,750), Ursula K. Le Guin (69,111), Patricia Cornwell (68,320), Frank Herbert (66,772), J. D. Salinger (66,633), Mary Pope Osborne (66,618), F. Scott Fitzgerald (66,211), Jim Butcher (65,380), Tamora Pierce (64,938), Neal Stephenson (64,868), L. M. Montgomery (64,707), Arthur C. Clarke (64,622), Chuck Palahniuk (62,127), John Irving (61,965), Arthur Conan Doyle (60,472), Marion Zimmer Bradley (60,439), Umberto Eco (60,313), Alexander McCall Smith (60,112), Madeleine L'Engle (59,930), Carolyn Keene (58,426), Stieg Larsson (58,039), Rick Riordan (55,991), Meg Cabot (55,889), William Gibson (55,702)


Obsérvese la perfecta ordenación estadística del número de visitas para formar un gráfico de larga cola. Como cabía esperar, las diferencias entre los autores de los primeros puestos y los siguientes van decreciendo siguiendo una ley inflexible.

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