Under his own name and his nom de plume, Mr. Handler has written more than two dozen books, including "A Series of Unfortunate Events, " about the misadventures of the orphaned Baudelaire children.
Ebert was also an author, writing more than 20 books that included two volumes of essays on classic movies and the popular "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, " a collection of some of his most scathing reviews.
But his mind was intact and he had partial use of his hands enough to write two books and more than a dozen scientific articles.
It took Mr Hinton more than two years to cut down the 66 books of the Bible into a version that could be read in 1hr 40min.
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The two books combined have sold more than 38 million copies.
Initially a start-up with no employees and run out of Ms. Friedman's apartment, Open Road now has more than two dozen employees and has published about 2, 000 e-books.
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At its peak, it had as many as two million speakers, and produced its own rich literature, including more than fifteen thousand books.
The problem is two-fold: first, there are many more books to choose from than in generations past (in 1950, for example, just 11, 000 titles were published).
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And for Amazon, this means the beginning of at least two years when it will be setting the prices of many more e-books than it could in the past.
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The conductor also received more than a dozen honorary doctorates, was honored in countries from Finland to Japan, and managed to write two books of poetry.
Run by the Mormon Church, it contains more than two billion names of the deceased, more than 2.2 million rolls of microfilm and 300, 000 books.
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