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		<title>Booktopia’s Top Twenty Non-Fiction Bestsellers for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What did Booktopia’s customers buy in 2011? Here are the twenty highest selling non-fiction titles… 1. The Dukan Diet by Pierre Dukan Nothing could have prepared us for the hit of the year. One day we were Dukan free, the next day every order seemed to leave containing a copy of The Dukan Diet. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=21230&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Booktopia&#8217;s Top Twenty Fiction Bestsellers for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What did Booktopia&#8217;s customers buy in 2011? Here are the twenty highest selling fiction titles&#8230; 1. Inheritance by Christopher Paolini Keeping in mind that the fourth and final instalment of Paolini&#8217;s Inheritance Cycle was only released in November, hitting the number one sales spot for the entire year is an amazing achievement. Pre-orders for Inheritance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=21228&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amanda Hocking: The Author Who Made Millions by Self-Publishing Her Novels Now Makes Millions Being Published</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publishing sensation Amanda Hocking&#8217;s story reads like a fairy tale. She self-published her novels and sold a million copies within a year or so. The very thought of such overnight success can cause normally quite reasonable unpublished authors to lose their heads. On the strength of a headline &#8211; &#8216;Self-published author makes money&#8217;  &#8211; thousands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=21317&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Booktopia, we have made Get Reading even better. We are giving away the entire collection of 50 books to one lucky person who buys from the Get Reading 50 between now and the end of September. How good is that? 50 books you get to keep<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=18108&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Penguin Ink series: timeless stories, enduring design&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/08/15/the-penguin-ink-series-timeless-stories-enduring-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Penguin&#8230; &#8220;For seventy-five years, Penguin has united the best in literature with the best in graphic design, creating some of the world&#8217;s most recognizable books. To help celebrate our anniversary, we&#8217;ve chosen a few of our favorite books and are presenting them with new covers specially designed by some of the world&#8217;s best artists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=17721&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Booktopia founders were warned they could not make money running an online bookstore</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/08/15/the-booktopia-founders-were-warned-they-could-not-make-money-running-an-online-bookstore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Australian newspaper article: Paging all authors by Rosemary Neill IN an industrial estate in Sydney&#8217;s north lies a warehouse that may represent the future of bookselling. It&#8217;s in an unglamorous location next to an electricity substation and it&#8217;s an adamantly low-key operation; it houses a management team, but there isn&#8217;t a suit, tie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=17681&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The book is dead. Long live the book, says John Purcell</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/05/25/the-book-is-dead-long-live-the-book-says-john-purcell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 23:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book is terminally ill, say those in the know, and lies near death in a private hospital plugged into a life support machine and surrounded by close friends and relatives. Right now, across the world commentators are drafting moving eulogies. Commemorative plates and tea towels are being made. Songs are being written. A mini-series [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=14798&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toni Whitmont review: Flipbacks are coming to a pocket near you.</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/05/24/flipbacks-are-coming-to-a-pocket-near-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 04:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toni Whitmont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small and perfectly formed, the flipback is built to last and it doesn't leave you with a dislocated shoulder from lugging it around all day in your handbag. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=14876&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hardback Vs Paperback &#8211; Is this, too, a gender issue?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 23:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A complaint has been lodged in the UK and echoed here in Australia &#8211; women writers of fiction are not being taken seriously. Case in point: Fewer women than men are published in hardback. This point may seem meaningless. The economy and ease of the paperback makes it the choice of any sensible consumer, anyway. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=14515&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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