"Collective Graphomania"

"In 2007, a whopping 400,000 books were published or distributed in the United States, up from 300,000 in 2006, according to the industry tracker Bowker, which attributed the sharp rise to the number of print-on-demand books and reprints of out-of-print titles."

Full story in the New York Times.

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Interesting factoid from the story regarding the POD publisher Xlibris.

• Top sellers include Demonstrating to Win!, a computer manual (15,600 sold, not including copies bought by the author),
• And The Morning Comes and Also the Night, which the company lists in the religion/Bible/prophecies category (10,500 sold).