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In 2022, about how many total book titles did the United Kingdom publish?

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According to a 2018 Association of American Publishers report, e-books made up about what share of total U.S. publisher trade revenue?

That year, U.S. publishers made about $22.6 billion from print books versus about $2 billion from e-books.

Source: Association of American Publishers, via Wikipedia: E-book (2018) en.wikipedia.org

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