- The all time best selling electronic book is Stephen King's "Riding The Bullet."
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- Edinburgh has more booksellers per head of population than any other city in Britain.
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- There was a book written fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic happened titled "Futility" by Morgan Robertson. This book was remarkably similar to the tragedy that happened to the Titanic in 1912.
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- The book "Little Red Riding Hood" was banned in 1990 by two school districts in California. They did this because in the book there was a picture of a basket that had a bottle of wine in it.
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- In 1998, Ten Speed Press publishing company published a book, "The Eat A Bug Cookbook" by David George Gordon that contains over 33 bug recipes.
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- The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. has the world's largest collection of comic books with over 5,000 titles and 100,000 issues.
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- The world's largest public library is the Chicago Public Library, which has a collection of over 2 million books.
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- Agatha Christie's fictional character Hercule Poirot is the only fictional character ever to be honored with an obituary on the front page of The New York Times.
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- George Orwell's book "Animal Farm" was turned down many times by different publishers. One of them actually said, "it was impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A."
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- Author Dr. Seuss wrote the book "Green Eggs and Ham" because the editor made him a bet that he could not write a book, which contained less than fifty words.
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- During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, "Moby Dick," sold only 3,715 copies.
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- General Lew Wallace's best seller Ben Hur was the first work of fiction to be blessed by a pope.
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- The smallest book in the world is "Chekhov's Chameleon," which measures 0.9 by 0.9 millimeters. The book has 30 pages and three colour illustrations and is not much larger than a grain of salt.
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