SO MANY BOOKS!

According to Bowker, a staggering 175,000 new book titles and editions were published in the U.S. last year - 19% more than the incredibly high figure for 2002. That includes 17,000 general adult fiction titles, 16,000 juvenile titles, and 12,000 titles from university presses. Overall, new titles have increased by 50% since 1994 - and those titles come from a record 78,000 publishers, nearly 11,000 more than in 2002. More than 16,000 publishers are in California, more than twice as many as in New York - although New York City still has more publishers than any other city.

Reprinted with permission
Cities & Insights, July 2004
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