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Self-help on the way.
Byline: Patricia Kitchen
Mar. 2--Think of all the things we see on the rise these days, starting with stress, job insecurity, obesity, health care costs and the number of baby boomers becoming sexagenarians. Perhaps as a result, anxiety is on the rise, too -- and Americans, being who we are, look for help where?
The bookstore, of course, specifically the self-help section -- where sales also are on the upswing.
Such books, which represent 3.7 percent of adult nonfiction titles, account for $580 million in annual sales: 10.7 million copies were sold in 2005, up from 9.5 million the year before, according to Nielsen BookScan US, a sales ...
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