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How many books in the world?
August 6, 2010 - 3:54pm — Bibliofuture
Based on a new algorithm, Google says there are some 129,864,880 books in the world.
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You heard it here first
Story has been on LISNEWS for a couple days. Today on NPR there is a 4 minute piece about this story.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129160859
you mean "you heard it here first after the 8/6 NPR story"?
the original link is from NPR..
ATC
Story was posted on LISNEWS before it was on ATC. Basically I needed some words to put in front of the link.