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Paris Book Fair to open amid global publishing boom PARIS (AFP) - The Paris Book Fair opens Friday amid a global boom in the publishing trade, flouting all the direst predictions of sci-fi writers that the advent of a digital world would spell the end of the written word. "Books are becoming more democratic. Fewer than nine percent of homes had no books in 1997, compared with more than a quarter in 1993," wrote French author Laurence Santantonios in his newly-published essay "As long as there are books". Rest of the article is at the link.