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eBooks now the dominant format in USA adult fiction - with 30 percent of sales
Jul 18 2012
Digital books are now "the dominant single format" in the adult fiction category, according to a new BookStats joint report from the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group. eBooks exploded in the adult fiction category last year, accounting for 30 percent of net publisher sales in 2011 - up from 13 percent the year before.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
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