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Book Publishing Statistics

Jun 01 2005: According to Bowker (who describe themselves as North America’s leading provider of bibliographic information), 195,000 new book titles were published in 2004, up 14% year on year. The growth came mainly from small and mid-sized publishers, with the largest publishing ...

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Deep Throat - What Now?

Jun 01 2005: Now that W. Mark Felt has come clean that he was 'Deep Throat' the next question is when's he going to write a book and does anyone care either way? The answer seems to he probably won't (he is the author of one book about the FBI (The FBI Pyramid From The Inside), ...

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Google Print for Libraries Still Causing Storm

Jun 01 2005: Google Print For Libraries (Google's project to place large amounts of book content in its database and make it available in the form of 'snippets') continues to cause controversy. Not only are publishers concerned about the amount of information available to browsers ...

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Time Traveller's Wife becomes bestseller

May 18 2005: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is a runaway bestseller with more than 2 million copies in print. In 2006 movie goers will be able to enjoy its convoluted storyline on screen in a film directed by Gus van Sant and starring Brad Pitt (Jennifer Aniston and ...

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Book Expo

May 18 2005: Interesting book news seems a little scarce at the moment - probably because the largest USA publishing industry trade show of the year, Book Expo America, is just around the corner (June 3rd-5th at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York). Day passes range ...

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Bullshit Sells Well

May 18 2005: The surprise bestseller On Bullshit by Princeton philosophy professor, Harry G Frankfurt, continues to sell well. It was first published, under a different title, in the American Scholar in 1986; but was published with its current, and undoubtedly catchier, title in ...

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Small & large publishers complain about Amazon's 'voluntary' promotions program.

May 04 2005: According to Publishers Weekly, Amazon requires publishers to contribute co-op dollars of approximately 3% of their Amazon sales for the previous year - or risk not appearing in search results. These dollars can be used in a variety of ways but the most popular for ...

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New TV series set in a bookstore.

Apr 20 2005: The new Fox TV series, Stacked (starring the well endowed Pamela Anderson, with the tagline - You can't judge a book by its cover, especially when it's only covered by a miniskirt and baby-tee!) launched last week in a six week pilot. Set in a bookstore, the plot ...

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