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100 years of wine books – part 2

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See also part 1, and Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2015.

NUMBER OF PAGES

Having established that the number of wine books published shot up like a rocket after ebooks and self-publishing became mainstream in 2007, the next step is to examine what this multitude of books is actually like. One interesting trend is related to the length of these books. I had a hunch from reading the titles of the hundreds of CWBs (consumer wine books) being published every year that many of them were not full-length titles.

Figure 5: percentage of CWBs with...