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The article presents a list of fiction and nonfiction books to be published in 2014 including "Paper Lantern: Love Stories," by Stuart Dybek, "The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book," by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée, and "The Girl Who Was Saturday Night" by Heather O'Neill.

The article reports on a study suggesting that 80 percent of book and magazine buyers would pay more if they were printed on recycled paper. The study was co-sponsored by the Green Press Initiative and was reported by GreenBiz.com. According to Tyson Miller of the Green Press Initiative, the most common hurdle to sale of such books are the higher prices for recycled and Forest Stewardship Council-certified paper.

The article reports on the move by copyright experts to build a framework for controlled digital lending (CDL) with the publication of a white paper and an official position statement initially supported by 40 individuals and 24 institutional signatories. Topics discussed include benefit of a CDL to a library if properly implemented, basic concept of CDL, and titles that would benefit from CDL including those that are out of print, orphan works or in-copyright works that were not digitized.

This article reports on the market performance of the printing industry in the U.S. as of November 2005. The industry has posted a positive market performance in the second half of the year. Various factors are attributed for such performance including the sales of Harry Potter books and the print on demand. The collaboration project among publishers, manufacturers and paper merchants are also attributed for a strong market performance.

The article evaluates information technology products including Global CONNECT print-on-demand technology from Ingram Content Group, Inc., PaperStream cloud based app from Pubget, Inc. and iPeerReview app for mobile access for submitted papers to AIP Publishing.

The article presents the e-book trends in the publishing industry as reported in a survey conducted by Aptara, Inc., a provider of content production and digital publishing services. It says that trade publishers ranked the highest in boosting their e-book initiatives where production jumped by 26% from 2009 to 2011. It also announces the initial release of O'Reilly Media, Inc.'s Tool of Change (TOC) white paper series, "The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections."

Reports on the increase in the total number of books published in the U.S. in 2002. Reason for the decline in titles from the largest trade houses; Price gap between trade paper and mass market titles; Increase in the average price of adult trade paperbacks.

Presents updates on book publishing in the United States as of May 29, 2000. Details on the publication of the book `A Whole New Ballgame: Michael Jordan Comes to Washington,' by Michael Wilbon; Purchase of the trade paper rights of the book `Irrational Exuberance,' by Robert J. Shiller, by editor Gerald Howard; Highlights of the auction for the book `The Secret of the Qi Masters,' by Roger Jahnke.