Source: IBISWorld report
600, 3
The number of copies sold of the first books by, respectively, Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, according to former director of publishing at Pantheon and founder of the not-for-profit The New Press André Schiffrin in an interview with Live Mint. The interview was on the occasion of the Indian release of "The Business of Words," a joint edition of his 2001 tome "The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read" and 2010's "Words and Money." "A publisher is not just a printer—he brings his filters, his projections and his skills to the table," said Schiffrin. "Kafka's first book sold 600 copies; Beckett's sold three. But we believed in them and continued to publish them."