Released on = October 29, 2006, 10:54 am

Press Release Author = Sharyn Runyon - LRH Foundation

Industry = Media

Press Release Summary = Guinness World Records choose to honor Hubbard at this
year\'s Frankfurt 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.

Press Release Body = The World's Most Published and
Most Translated Author

Frankfurt, Germany -- 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 honor 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 Hubbard's 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.

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Web Site = http://www.lronhubbard.org

Contact Details = Sharyn Runyon
LRH Foundation
349 W 48th St
New York, NY 10036
phone: 212 757 9610 or 917 536 6637 mobile