From the course: Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila

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- [Presenter] Nowadays many conversations with friends feature the question, so what are you watching? But before TV and movies, there were books. And in many cases, your favorite show was based on a book. So let's dig into the statistics of books. While historical sales of religious texts like the Koran and the Bible are estimated to be in the billions and some other religious texts and political manifestos are estimated to be in the hundreds of millions, the numbers are in fact just estimates, even classic books like Don Quixote and The Count of Monte Cristo lack reliable sales data. For those books with more reliable sales figures, Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone, the first book in JK Rawlings, Harry Potter series tops the list with approximate sales of 120 million volumes. In fact, when you look at the entire series of seven Harry Potter books, each has sold 65 million or more copies. Four other books are…

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