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Libraries have to contend with paying between three to five times more for an e-book or audiobook compared to the print version. Worcester library grapples with higher prices for e-books ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
The New York Public Library Desk Reference, in its fourth edition as of 2014, is a one-volume general reference work.According to the OCLC (2005 report [1]) it is one of the most widely held general reference works by contributing libraries, ranked after multi-volume works The World Book Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana and Collier's Encyclopedia, but slightly ahead of the New ...
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However, all four references list 65 libraries in their gazetteers; Anderson, Jones, and Miller list 57 grants. D: ^ No reference tallies this number correctly for the public libraries. The amount is reported as $962,475 by Anderson, who for unknown reasons omits Walker from his list. Bobinski and Miller list Walker, but sum to $969,375.
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The company's final print edition was released in 2006. [1] The online version of the Encyclopedia Americana, first introduced in 1996, [1] continues to be updated and sold. This work, like the print set from which it is derived, is designed for high school and first-year college students along with public library users.