Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., have produced the world's smallest published book, measuring just 0.07 by 0.10 millimetres.

But to actually see the book, titled Teeny Ted from Turnip Town, readers will have to use a scanning electron microscope.

Researchers Li Yang and Karen Kavanagh of SFU's Nano Imaging Lab produced the book using a powerful microscope and a focused gallium-ion beam.

Yang and Kavanagh say their creation bests the small books — the New Testament of the King James Bible spanning five by five millimetres and Anton Chekhov's Chameleon measuring 0.9 mm by 0.99 mm — currently named by Guinness World Records book.

The story, written by Malcolm Douglas Chaplin, centres around a county fair turnip contest. The lab will produce and sell a limited 100 copies of the book