A lot of people! I was very gratified to see the following statistics of what is selling these days:
2010 Romance Fiction Sales in Comparison (source: Simba Information)
Romance: $1.358 billion
Religion/Inspirational: $ 759 billion
Mystery: $682 million
Science Fiction/Fantasy: $559 million
Classic Literary Fiction: $ 455 million
I was pleased to see romance maintain its dominant position in the industry, but was especially pleased to see the strong showing of religion and inspirational titles. Sales of this category are hard to track because so many titles are sold through churches or Christian bookstores, which are not generally tracked by the traditional measures in the book industry.
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Pott