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sales were electronic books. The year after that it was 19%, first half of this year was 41% and now it's over 50. So it's just incredible, you know the world's changing. And just to,I had a an interesting contract negotiation a couple of years ago and the publisher was trying to play hardball with me and they said, instead of doing the old formula for booksis royalties, right? They sell the books and they give you royalties, they wanted to go to profit sharing. And I'm smarter than that because I worked in finance. Profit sharing