The year Rising Sparrow Press was established :

2003: 10,877 new publishers registered for International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) in 2003, an increase of 226 (2.1 percent) over 2002.
--R.R. Bowker, May 27, 2004.

2003. 173,000 new titles and new editions were published.
New titles from the largest trade houses increased 2.4 percent, to 22,914, while total output from university presses declined by 2.2 percent, to 12,003.
--R.R. Bowker, May 27, 2004.
So, 80% of the titles came from the small or self-publishers.

2002: The five large New York publishers accounted for 45% of the market (made 45% of the sales-money.) They grossed $4.1 billion.
Publishers Weekly, June 16, 2003.
http://www.PublishersWeekly.com
So 55% of the sales (income) are made by the small/self-publishers.

As Dear Daisy was being printed February 2004,copyright June 2004, and Rising Sparrow Press published and released to the market (June 2004):

2004: 1,879,000 books are in-print (currently available).
http://www.bowker.com/products/print.htm

2004: 2.8 million books in print.
--R.R. Bowker as reported in The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2004.

A new book is published every 30 seconds.

--Rosemary Goring in The Herald, October 11, 2004.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/25577-print.shtml

And Dear Daisy was one of them.

Library of Congress Cataloging Number: 2004091496
Ver Dow, Jane Marla
Dear Daisy : a novel / Jane Marla Ver Dow
First Printing June 2004
Hardcover 384 pages
ISBN 1-932878-03-3

Stats cited were made available by leader of the Industry, Dan Poynter/Para Publishing (www.parapublishing.com). Honor credit source: http://BookStatistics.com

Author: Jane Marla VerDow, Dear Daisy copyright ©2004; Independent Publishing: Rising Sparrow Press, est. 2003.

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