More broadly, the print run of most academic books is very small, only a few hundred or so. The average Less Wrong post gets more views than that.
Don’t equate print run with readership. I don’t know any individuals with academic books, but my university’s library is full of them—if a book gets bought by a few hundred university libraries, it’s potentially going to be read by far more than a few hundred people.
Don’t equate print run with readership. I don’t know any individuals with academic books, but my university’s library is full of them—if a book gets bought by a few hundred university libraries, it’s potentially going to be read by far more than a few hundred people.