THE BOOK TRADE
PRODUCTION DIFFICULTIES (Rec. 11 p.m.), LONDON* Dec. 4. .Thirty-seven thousand catalogued books available for purchase two years ago are now unobtainable owing to production difficulties, says the Bookseller magazine. Fifteen *per. cent, of the titles of technical, medical, and educational books are no longer available, 46 per cent, of children's books, 36 per cent, of fiction, and; 27 pet I cent; of other book's; ' \v« ! The book trade compiled these figures when the Government demanded .evidence of its contention that the/supply of books was diminishing to. a seriously low level. The do not include titles which would normally have disappeared.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24783, 6 December 1941, Page 10
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