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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.

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.