Just when we had hoped to celebrate the
success of e-books this year, we are confronted by David's
dismal discovery that the number of e-book titles published actually has declined by 39% in 2004:
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I ran across the numbers tucked away in the just-mentioned Arizona article in the Book Standard, and similar numbers appear in Inside Higher Ed News, which says: "the 23 publishers that responded to a survey made $9.62 million in revenues in 2004, a 31 percent increase over 2003, even while they chose to publish 4,351 titles, down from 7,138 in 2003."
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