Wed Oct 11, 8:00 AM ET

Frankfurt, Germany (PRWEB) October 11, 2006 — Tens of thousands of
authors, publishers and book industry professionals gathered this October
at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest and most important event for the international publishing industry. Many of the publishers’ stands
featured the books of hundreds of authors. Unique among them is New Era
Publications, which publishes the work of only one author, L. Ron Hubbard.

Guinness World Records choose to honour Hubbard at the Book Fair by
awarding him two new world records. The first confirmed that he is the
world’s most published author with 1084 works exceeding the record held
by Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki with 1,058. Guinness also officially verified that Hubbard exceeded his own previous record as the world’s most translated author when his works were published in six more languages raising the record from 65 to 71.

Mr. Kalyan Shah, President of India’s Publishers And Booksellers
Guild, the organizers of the Kolkata Book Fair, the world’s largest consumer book fair, presented the Guinness World Record certificates to L. Ron Hubbards literary agency, Author Services Inc. (Los Angeles). Shah described Hubbard as “”one of the world’s most influential authors whose many works of fiction and non-fiction have both entertained and enlightened readers on all continents and contributed to our emerging global culture. He is not only a publishing phenomena, his works are a treasure to be shared by all who believe that humanity can find solutions to its many problems and build a better world for all.”"

The languages in which books by L. Ron Hubbard are available include
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Basque, Belo
Russian, Bengali, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dari-Farsi, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mexican, Mongolian, Nepalese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Xhosa and Zulu.

New Era Publications also announced the release in 2007 of a new collection of 200 of Hubbard’s early fiction works, titled Stories from a
Golden Age, as well as a new line of his non-fiction works.

The total sales of Hubbard’s fiction and non-fiction works have
surpassed 230 million copies with 19 New York Times best-sellers.