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The BookFinder.com Report tracks the most sought-after out-of-print titles in America. The newly released fifth annual edition is based on aggregate reader demand between July 2007 and June 2008, online at http://report.bookfinder.com/ "We're seeing interest in out-of-print titles hit critical mass," says BookFinder.com founder Anirvan Chatterjee. "Many of this year's standout titles have fascinating stories, involving factors like suppression or controversy." Shortly after the already limited publication, all unsold copies of the controversial "Smith County Justice" (1986) were returned to the publisher and burned, never reappearing in print. The book is a nonfiction account of alleged widespread police perjury, entrapment, and murder during the 1970s and 1980s in Smith County, Texas. Concerned residents have helped keep the book's allegations in circulation by issuing an unauthorized ebook distributed online via sites like Wikileaks -- leading to huge demand for the original book. Clifford Irving came close to pulling off one of the most ambitious literary hoaxes in the 20th century with his fake "The Autobiography of Howard Hughes." The reclusive Howard Hughes surfaced in 1972 shortly before publication, to repudiate the book; Irving went to prison for fraud. The work first saw the light of day in 1999, with a publication of a small private edition; the book has since remained out of print in the U.S. "Raven: the Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People" (1983) by Tim Reiterman is increasingly in demand as the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre approaches in November. Reiterman, a then-San Francisco Examiner journalist, was in Jonestown with a Congressional delegation at the time of the massacre. Notable and less clandestine, "The Jerusalem Bible" (1966) illustrated by surrealist Salvador Dali is also in high demand. This all-new Catholic Bible was produced directly from original sources; the team of translators included J.R.R. Tolkien. While there were many editions printed, only one included art by Dali, 32 images from the artist's "Biblia Sacra" series. Since 1997, BookFinder.com has been one of the best ways to find and buy new, used, rare, and out-of-print books online. The comparison shopping engine has over 150 million books available for sale from a network of 150,000 booksellers in over 50 countries, making it the world's largest searchable book inventory, online or off. © Copyright 2008 by ItsaSurvey.com Top of Page |
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