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The next several years became a feast of reading astronomy books, copying down astronomical tables, and constructing telescopes.
Once upon a time, the only books that existed were books copied by hand by monks and scribes and sold to the very rich for the equivalent of $5000 or $6000 a book.
They also had a record of the out-tray, kept as drafts and in "letter-books", copies of outgoing correspondence kept by clerks (Cromwell had an army of clerks, some with exceptionally beautiful handwriting and talented enough to be more a trusted PA than a human version of a word processor).
E-book sales have been skyrocketing, too: in 2012, about 80,000 e-book copies of "Gatsby" were sold.
Ms. Rowling contends in the lawsuit that his book copies material from her own books while adding little or no new information and insight.
According to first-day sales collected by Random House, more than 170,000 print copies and 110,000 e-book copies sold on Tuesday, the largest opening for a Random House book in 2011.
Fiction has been an especially rich market for digital books: major publishers say new novels often sell more e-book copies than print copies in their initial weeks of sale.
A few years ago, e-book sales were tiny when compared with print sales, but in the last six months, it has not been uncommon for a new novel to sell more e-book copies than print ones.
Last year each book in E.L. James Fifty Shades Off Grey trilogy sold more than 15 million e-book copies.
