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In 2002, pre-tax sales of all publications
in Japan dropped 0.6% over the previous year to ¥2.3 trillion,
according to a survey by the Research Institute for Publications.
The figure has been decreasing since 1997 when it recorded the
first drop since the survey started in 1950. Of the total ¥2.3
trillion sales, ¥949 billion was for books and ¥1.36
trillion for periodicals (¥1.02 trillion for monthlies and
¥0.34 trillion for weeklies). The total number of copies
sold also decreased 2% from 2001 to 3.96 billion, including
739 million books and 3.22 billion periodicals.
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