Hello Erikbravo,
An estimated 1,200,000,000,000 words are printed in the United States in a year.
I used statistical data from the UCal Berkeley study "How Much
Information?" (2003) to calculate the above figure.
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Table 2.5: U.S. Original Print Information Flow (2003)
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Media type Items per year Total Terabytes
Books (ISBN) 141,901 books 0.1 TB
Newspapers 10,170 publications 0.3 TB
Mass Market &
Trade Periodicals 16,615 publications 0.07 TB
Scholarly Periodicals 10,632 publications 0.03 TB
Newsletters 11,581 publications 0.006 TB
Archiveable,
Original documents
(National Archives) 4.3 Bn pgs 11.6 TB
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Total 12 TB
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Source: UCal Berkeley
"How Much Information?" (2003)
Release date: October 27, 2003
Berkeley School of Information Management Systems
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/print.htm#usflow
"How Much Information?" (2003)
Executive Summary
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm
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The following facts were taken from Roy Williams "Data Powers of Ten"
page at Caltech.
10 bytes: a single word
Kilobyte = 1,000 bytes
2 Kilobytes: A Typewritten page;
Megabyte = 1,000,000 bytes
1 Megabyte: A small novel
Gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes
Gigabytes: 20 meters of shelved books
Terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
10 Terabytes: The printed collection of the US Library of Congress
Petabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
8 Petabytes: All information available on the Web;
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/datapowers.html
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Calculation
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Table 2.5: U.S. Original Print Information Flow (2003)
12 Terabytes
1 Terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
Therefore: 12 Terabytes = 12,000,000,000,000 bytes
If 10 bytes = a single word
An estimated 1,200,000,000,000 words are printed in the United States in a year.
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My fellow researcher Omnivorous-ga pointed out this excellent resource
from UCal Berkeley, "How Much Information?" (2003)
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