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New Study Shows Big Drop in Book Sales
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
NEW YORK - Not even Harry Potter could prevent a big drop in book sales in 2003. With a struggling economy and competition for time from other media, 23 million fewer books were sold last year than in 2002, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Book Industry Study Group, a non-for-profit research organization.
