GEBO statistics show that while in 1964 there were 4400 books published, the figure now hovers at about 10,000 yearly. And it s not just sex titles. Books by ex-advisors and major political commentators are proving to have an enduring popularity. Heikal's 'Secret Negotiations,' the inside story on 30 years of peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt. But it's not all sleaze.
Political literature has an audience too.
But none have upped 10,000. Emad Nassef has had a runaway success with The Age of Fifi Abdou. He holds up Abdou as a symbol of all the inquities of our age, no offence to Fifi he says. In The Experiences of a Woman in Love Soad H offers women lessons in life and love. I will fight cowardly men and show how they hunt women.