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Some More Interesting Information about
world of Books |
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The origin of the Latin word for book, liber, comes from the Romans who
used the thin layer found between the bark and the wood (the liber) before
the times of parchment. The English word comes from the Danish word for
book, bog, meaning birch tree, as the early people of Denmark wrote on
birch bark. |
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Nobel Prize Winners :-Gaunter
Grass (1999),Gao Zinzian (2000), V S Naipol (2001), Emmer custiz (2002), J M
Coetzi (2003) |
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Booker Prize Winners:- J M Coetzi- Disgrace (1999),Margaret, Atwood - Blind Assassin
(2000), Peter Carry - To History of caly Gang
(2001), Yan Martel - Life of P (2002), DBC Pears - Werner God Little (2003) |
The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA contains 28 million books and
has 532 miles of shelving.
If you were driving at a constant 70 mph in a car it would take you just
under 8 hours to pass them all.
The British Library in London is the 2nd biggest with 18 million books.
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Fastest selling Book :- Paddy clerk ha ha ha by
Rudy Doel - 27000 copies in just 30 minutes after winning Booker prize in
1993 |
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Elister Macklin's 28 novels' out of 30 sold over one million copies
each. His Books translates in 28 languages & 13 picturised. It is believed
that there is a time when his book sold at every second in world. |
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Bill Clinton get 10
Million Dollar in advance for writing his autobiography in non fiction
section .
In 1817 Thomas Moore get 3150
Pound for "Lalla Rukh" . This is maximum at that time .
Dom Clancy get 14 Million
Dollar advance for his without Remorse from "Berkley Putnam" in August,
1992 .
Stephan King get 40 Million
Dollars in advance for his three books in 1989.
Barbra Teller Bradford also get
27 Million Dollars for her three books in 1992. |
Of all time, this accolade goes to Agatha Christie, detective story
authoress. Since 1920 her books have sold over a billion copies in the
English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages. She is
outsold only by the Bible and William Shakespeare.
Following her is Dame Barbara Cartland, British romantic novelist, who
died in 2000. With over 700 novels to her name, she has sold more than
670 million copies worldwide. |
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World's First E-Book "Riding The Boolet" write by Stephan Advin King
in 2000. |
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As per Time Magazine these books changed many
peoples life style.
Civilisation
& its discontent by Sigmund Frayed in 1930, Diamond of Young Girl by annie
Frank in 1947, Second Sex by Simon D Boa in 1949, Silent Thrill by
Russell Carson in 1962, Autobiography of Mical x in 1965. |
J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book
in the acclaimed series, had a first-run print of 8.5 million copies.
This is approximately 80 times the average bestseller!
This beat the previous book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which
had a first-run print of 4.8 million copies |
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Between 1986 and 1996, Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue
had a massive 1,058 novels published. He writes westerns, science fiction
and thrillers. |