Editing Self-help (section)

=== Statistics ===
At the start of the 21st century, "the self-improvement industry, inclusive of books, seminars, audio and video products, and personal coaching, [was] said to constitute a 2.48-billion dollars-a-year industry"{{r|McGee|page=11}} in the United States alone. By 2006, research firm Marketdata estimated the "self-improvement" market in the U.S. as worth more than {{currency|9 billion|usd|passthrough=yes}}—including [[infomercial]]s, [[mail-order catalog]]s, [[holistic]] institutes, books, [[Compact Cassette|audio cassette]]s, [[motivational speaker|motivation-speaker]] seminars, the [[personal coaching]] market, and [[weight loss|weight-loss]] and [[stress management|stress-management]] programs. Market data projected that the total market size would grow to over {{currency|11 billion|usd|passthrough=yes|linked=no}} by 2008.<ref>{{cite press release | title = Self-Improvement Market in U.S. Worth $9.6 Billion | publisher = PRWeb | date = September 21, 2006 | url = http://www.prwebdirect.com/releases/2006/9/prweb440011.php | access-date = 2008-12-18 | quote = Marketdata Enterprises, Inc., a leading independent market research publisher, has released a new 321-page market study entitled: The U.S. Market For Self-Improvement Products & Services. | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20070421220629/http://www.prwebdirect.com/releases/2006/9/prweb440011.php | archive-date = April 21, 2007 }}
</ref> In 2013 [[Kathryn Schulz]] examined "an $11 billion industry".<ref>{{cite news
| title       = The Self in Self-Help: We have no idea what a self is. So how can we fix it?
| first       = Kathryn
| last        = Schulz
| author-link = Kathryn Schulz
| url         = https://nymag.com/health/self-help/2013/schulz-self-searching/
| newspaper   = [[New York (magazine)|New York Magazine]]
| publisher   = New York Media, LLC
| issn        = 0028-7369
| date        = 2013-01-06
| access-date = 2013-01-11
| quote       = We have, however, developed an $11 billion industry dedicated to telling us how to improve our lives.}}</ref>