According to the article "Self-Published Titles Topped 764,000 in 2009 as Traditional Output Dipped", self published titles caused the total book titles published to increase by 87% to over a million titles from 2008 to 2009.
It's never been so easy to be a published author. But how would copyright libraries such as the Library of Congress and the Bodleian Library cope with such unforeseen explosion of book titles?
[see Bowker's statistics (pdf)]
Here appear occasional jottings of my random musings. Profound or jejune, they reveal the contours of my mental universe, with world history, intellectual history, civilizations, philosophy, religion, society, knowledge, and books as some major themes. Since May 2011, this blog has been exclusively focused on Singapore. All my other reflections are now posted in "Notes from Noosphere" (see link under "Miscellany" on the right margin).
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