Article: Six Guidebook Publishers and Their Policies on Freebies

Article: Fed: 80 million books sold in Australia in 03-04
AAP General News (Australia);  September 20, 2005 ;     166 words ......Australia) 09-20-2005 Fed: 80 million books sold in Australia in 03-04 CANBERRA, Sept...million books, or eight per cent of all books sold. According to the ABS report, 98 per...there was little change in the number of books sold, or their value, the ABS said. The average...

Article: Flick Fact
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  December 12, 2004 ;     55 words ......which is the most popular seller -- non- fiction or fiction?Answer If you go by Barnes & Noble statistics, six of every 10 books sold at Christmastime are non-fiction. Interestingly, during the summertime, seven of every 10 books sold are fiction.

Article: Online sales affecting dealers, Schwartz says
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 13, 1999 ;     197 words ...Books sold on the World Wide Web are definitely beginning...com, account roughly for about 2% of all books sold in the U.S. But experts say Internet book...Schwartz said. Yet the number of total books sold is not increasing. Schwartz's comments...

Article: 80m books sold in Australia.(Brief Article)
M2 Best Books;  September 21, 2005 ;     118 words ......and seven other big businesses sold 6.1m books, or 8% of all books sold, reported The Age. The report also revealed that 98% of the...printed books, and there was little change in the number of books sold, or their value, with the average book price remaining unchanged...

Article: Despite recession, Canadians still buying books.(NEWS)
Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario);  April 7, 2009 ;     249 words ......country, said yesterday the volume of books sold was up 6.7 per cent in the first quarter compared to last year. The value of books sold jumped five per cent in the January-March...said. She said some of the most popular books sold so far this year have been those tied...

Article: France hails Agatha Christie as no. 1 author.
PR Newswire;  May 2, 2003 ;     326 words ......include Guy de Maupassant (10.7 million books sold), Jules Verne and Colette (5.5 million...market leader in publishing. One in five books sold in France today is published by Livre...author Mary Higgins Clark (16 million books sold), while novelist HervE[umlaut] Bazin...

Article: STAT'S LIFE.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  August 5, 2003 ;     45 words ...Types of books sold in the UK Children's 34,686,392 2 General fiction 32,655,939 3 Mystery fiction 8,436,077 4 Autobiographies 6,550,087 5 School textbooks...

Article: Low sales of non-fiction books for children.(Brief Article)
M2 Best Books;  March 27, 2002 ;     115 words ......non-fiction is apparently in decline, accounting for less than 15% of all children's books sold in the UK last year. Fewer than 5m of the 34.5m children's books sold were non-fiction or reference books and only two junior encyclopaedias (from Oxford...

Article: Sale of donated books in HK attract 21,000 people
Xinhua News Agency;  February 16, 2003 ;     187 words ......about 21,000 people with over 147,000 books sold. All books were sold at 5 HK dollars...Both the number of participants and books sold are more than double those of last year...10,000 people participated and 66, 000 books sold with a donation of 330,000 HK dollars...

Article: Mr Men are 30.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 29, 2001 ;     26 words ...The hugely popular Mr Men books are 30 years old today. With 100million books sold, creator Roger Hargreaves is second only to JK Rowling in the kids' best-sellers list.

Article: Page-turning detectives. (mysteries top fiction book sales) (illustration)
U.S. News & World Report;  August 14, 1989 ;     44 words ...Fiction readers seem to thrive on the unknown. Of the 2.1 billion books sold in the U.S. in 1987, nearly 17 percent were whodunits. And mysteries should sell even more in years ahead; the 35-49-year-olds who read them the most are the polpulations fastest-growing segment.-----CHART

Article: 225,000 books sold at Hong Kong's charity book sale
Xinhua News Agency;  February 26, 2006 ;     174 words ...225,000 books sold at Hong Kong's charity book sale HONG KONG, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- A charity...reading, book recycling and charity. The number of participants and books sold in this weekends have increased respectively by 20 percent and 15 percent...

Article: Maverick Marketing and Self-Publishing Team Hit 4.5 Million of Their Self-Published Books Sold and Move into Consulting.
PRWeb;  April 7, 2009 ;     498 words ......a Wyoming, LLC hit 4.5 million of their own self-published books sold. After reaching this goal they have decided to invest time...Critters beat out Kevin Trudeau, the self-publishing guru in books sold through infomercials. A couple of their best selling titles...

Article: Record Number of Books Sold at National Book Fair
Xinhua English Newswire;  September 8, 1997 ;     131 words ......record 509 million yuan (61.3 million US dollars) worth of books ordered and 32 million yuan-worth (3.86 million US dollars) of books sold. The figures are up 189 million yuan and 8 million yuan respectively over last year. The 10-day fair has attracted 34 delegations...