the number of titles printed books published in 2013 " traditional " publishers declined in comparison with 2012 on 1%: 309 957 $ 304 912. In the field of self-publishing and republishing is not copyrighted books the fall of the printed product was much more significant: 45, 7% to 1 108 193 titles. Bowker explains this decline " market correction ": from 2010 to 2012 he published an unusually large number of books are not copyrighted, and now the situation will gradually improve.

Most published genre in 2013 was fiction for adults, was published 50. 498 titles, which is 1% more than in 2012. Simultaneously literature for children and adolescents was published on 1% lower than a year earlier: 32 902 names. The largest drop was observed in the field of business literature - 20%. The maximum increase in books about music: 24%.

according to the information Bowker, in General in 2013 was published at 41% more titles of printed books than in 2002. The last six years in the U.S. each year is published from 284 000 to 310 000 books.

recall that, according to BookStats, selling all kinds of books in the U.S. in 2013 has not increased.

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