Mainstream publishing houses have long depended for much of their profit on selling backlist titles, books in print for more than a year.
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The survey covered books in print, in electronic formats and audiobooks.
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According to Wikipedia, Brooks is one of the biggest-selling fantasy writer alive, with over 21 million copies of his books in print, including 24 Shannara books (and counting).
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Bowker's Books In Print says nearly 1, 400 titles related to President Kennedy, including his assassination, conspiracy works, biographies and speeches, have been published in the U.S. over the past five decades.
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According to Bowker's Books in Print database, which tracks print and e-books published and distributed in the United States, 164 such works have been written so far - they either directly address the event or use it as a peg to hang greater literary concerns about love, life and loss.
Between 40 and 50 of his books are in print in Italy and France, but he is out of print in England.
More than eight million copies of his books are in print.
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In recent years, Wallace's reputation in his native land has taken a nose dive scarcely any of his books are still in print.
Many publishers, for example, still take far too long to get books to market in print or electronic form, missing valuable opportunities.
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In fact, according a recent report from Bowker, the number of new print books in the market increased by 5% in 2010, following a 4% increase in 2009.
Block engraving may be used to print books in a variety of traditional styles, to create modern books with conventional binding, or to reproduce ancient Chinese books.
The survey also found that just slightly more people prefer e-books over print for reading in bed.
Comic books remain relevant today, in both print and digital formats.
EHO, the online portal of a nonprofit print magazine, sells books in association with Amazon.com (AMZN) and takes a cut of the sales.
Even while the library represents an enormous investment in careful archiving of print books, it also includes a nod to the paperless future: a well-outfitted preservation and digitization laboratory that librarians will use to scan in books, maps, manuscripts and photographs.
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E-mails, out-of-print books, blogs, research papers in Arabic--any of them might contain something useful to someone.
So far in 2012, for every 100 print books Amazon.co.uk has sold, it has sold 114 Kindle books.
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This number is growing quickly and even in print alone, self-published books accounted for 43% of the total publishing output in 2011.
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What can a consultant with a great new book, or an academic author with a wonderful idea, or a novelist with a heartbreakingly beautiful story do to get in print, and sell a few books?
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Since the character first appeared in 2005, there have been at least 46 "Fancy Nancy" books from publisher HarperCollins, with over 20 million in print, spawning a number of popular dolls and toys, and becoming a must-have birthday party theme for all the fanciest little girls.
In some cases, when the books had fallen out of print, Gerda obtained the rights for free.
Sales of those electronic titles are now 6% of the overall sales of some 125, 000 books, including hundreds of New York Times bestsellers, available in both print and electronic form from Amazon.
Is this, then, a test case for publishers who could work in tandem with the fans of underappreciated and out-of-print books to bring them back into circulation?
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Escape from Cold Ditch is still in print in the UK. Davidson has published 16 other children's books.
Those curious to relive the spill's details should get hold of the excellent, out-of-print book by Art Davidson, In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez (Sierra Club Books).
Compared with traditional books, e-readers make it easy to distribute works from African authors that can be hard to get in print.
Bowker counted over 235, 000 titles self-published in print and digital compared to 148, 424 titles in 2011, although it counts only those books with ISBNs.
Material which is out of print in the US, but still available for sale elsewhere, will not be added to Google Books, unless consent is granted.
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