Frames from Fiction: Cutting Up Books, once seemed sacrilege-but... Books published, Just in the U.S 300,000 -- 2003. 411,422 -- 2007. 1,052,803-- 2009. 3,000,000-- 2011. 15,000, 000 + in 2012. Google estimates August 2010, 129,864,880 books were in existence. Cree Prophecy When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat gold.
