The Digital Publishing Revolution Is in the Rearview Mirror
It began 25+ years ago. So what is happening now?
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In 1990, Bowker tracked 25,000 new titles published. By 2007, that number reached 275,000, and by 2010, it reached 3 million. (While it is true that 85 percent of that 3 million are on-demand titles largely created by content farms scraping public domain websites—and publishing existing content under different titles, such as the "spamming" Amazon has been battling—it is strongly indicative of an explosion in the creation of, and the rendering available of, unimaginably large quantities of words and images. Moreover, Bowker is only counting books with ISBNs—a great deal of self-published output doesn't bother with ISBNs.)
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