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E-book sales have seen staggering advances in the last several years, while printed books have maintained a fairly stagnant growth. According to the Association of American Publishers, ebook profits topped out at roughly $450 million in 2010, showing a 164 percent increase over 2009 sales. By comparison, printed books gained only a few percentage points in many of the major publishing categories, such as paperback, hardcover and mass market.5f:{"position":2,"content":"$60"} 61:{"position":3,"content":"This by no means signals the demise of printed text as profits hold strong at more than $10 billion a year, but the upward trend of e-reading has left some casualties along the way – The Christian Science Monitor and US News and World Report shuttered their print editions in late 2010; a steep drop in print newspaper subscriptions and as a result, advertisement sales, have driven major newspapers to bankruptcy; US book and media retailer Borders closed its doors after posting billion- dollar losses in 2010, and, on January 1, the Jewish Publication Society, the oldest publisher of English-language Jewish books, will turn over its publication reins to the University of Nebraska Press in a move deemed purely economic."} 62:{"position":4,"content":"Ellen Frankel, editor emerita of the JPS, stated in an interview with The Jewish Standard that due to Internet competition and the book market, it’s likely JPS will publish fewer books even after the Nebraska buy-out. “JPS has already starte

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