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Based on preliminary figures, U.S. title output in 2004 increased by 14% to 195,000 new titles and editions, reaching an all-time high.

According to publishing industry expert Andrew Grabois, “2004 marked a return to pre-9/11 patterns of publishing. The historic increase in fiction, and the high double-digit growth of the religion, personal development, domestic arts, and travel categories, point to a seismic shift in the marketplace from the political to the personal. Publishers are betting that the reading public, exhausted by four years of terrorism, war, and polarizing presidential elections, will be more than ready for the kind of escapist and self-help fare that seemed trivial and inappropriate in the wake of a national tragedy.”

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