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The trade book industry was supposed to have had a blowout year in 2007. The newest and last Harry Potter book was set for publication. Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret was tearing up nonfiction hardcover lists while Khaled Hosseini and others were dominating adult fiction. Religious book sales, recovering from the hardships of 2005 and 2006, were rebounding. Books were in the headlines and being promoted like never before.

Yet publisher net sales in the U.S. crawled to the finish line at the end of the year with the same unimpressive single-digit growth as before. Several factors are at work, some of which are outside the control of the industry, and others are, simply put, a matter of chickens coming home to roost.
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