"The Government Printing Office couldn't produce enough copies for every Congressman and all 7,000 journalists who wanted one.
The News of the World sold 2.7 million copies (or one copy for every 23 people in Britain), in July, when Mr. Murdoch closed the tabloid.
Although the animation only shows a couple dozen copies of the filter, in reality there would need to be one copy for every position x.
The chain's religion buyer was an early advocate for the book, ordering copies for every store, said Patricia Bostelman, the vice president for marketing at Barnes & Noble.
Translated into 40 languages, as he writes in the introduction to the latest paperback edition, A Brief History has sold "about one copy for every 750 man, woman and child in the world".
My Struggle, the extraordinary six-volume, lightly fictionalized memoir by Karl Ove Knausgård, is a literary project that flies in the face of every known commercial principle, and yet the author is a rock star: 450,000 copies sold in Norway alone – one copy for every nine adults of the population.
Like Goldstein, Harts first greeted Sandberg's book with a sense of excitement; at the time, she was a 33-year-old professional working at a consulting firm, and her male boss bought a copy for every member of their team.
Last year in Japan, when Colourless Tsukuru and His Years of Pilgrimage went on sale with an initial print run of 500,000 (one copy for every 250 people in his native country), thousands of people queued overnight, showing a dedication that puts even iPhone mania in the shade.
In a different case, the first factor could tip against a law firm like Schwegman if, for example, the law firm was claiming that it was fair use for it to make a copy for every attorney at the firm of a copyrighted legal treatise on patent prosecution or a practitioner's manual on effective methods for filing patent applications with the USPTO or other patent offices.
