Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... Club was selling that many books each month ; it began that way , but soon changed to plans which allowed members to pass a given number of the monthly selections , and finally settled on the idea of requiring the pur- chase of only ...
... Club was selling that many books each month ; it began that way , but soon changed to plans which allowed members to pass a given number of the monthly selections , and finally settled on the idea of requiring the pur- chase of only ...
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... Club are made by shrewd John Beecroft , the decisions of the People's Book Club are arrived at by collecting the preferences of cross - sections of the reading public . There were said to be over fifty book clubs by 1947. One of the ...
... Club are made by shrewd John Beecroft , the decisions of the People's Book Club are arrived at by collecting the preferences of cross - sections of the reading public . There were said to be over fifty book clubs by 1947. One of the ...
Page 273
... clubs , the Pocket Books , or the " soft - format . " * To attain that height required a total of 1,000,000 copies in the twenties , 1,200,000 in the thirties , and 1,300,000 in the forties- goals difficult to achieve without book club ...
... clubs , the Pocket Books , or the " soft - format . " * To attain that height required a total of 1,000,000 copies in the twenties , 1,200,000 in the thirties , and 1,300,000 in the forties- goals difficult to achieve without book club ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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