Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... million copies of Mrs. Porter's nineteen books had been sold . Grant Over- ton once estimated that she made two million dollars out of her literary activity . What was there in these books which won readers by the millions ? What were ...
... million copies of Mrs. Porter's nineteen books had been sold . Grant Over- ton once estimated that she made two million dollars out of her literary activity . What was there in these books which won readers by the millions ? What were ...
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... million dollars advertising How to Win Friends , and sold a million and a half dollars ' worth of copies at $ 1.96 apiece . * Important as this paid advertising was , it was the word - of - mouth recom- mendation of readers that made ...
... million dollars advertising How to Win Friends , and sold a million and a half dollars ' worth of copies at $ 1.96 apiece . * Important as this paid advertising was , it was the word - of - mouth recom- mendation of readers that made ...
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... million a conservative estimate of its total sales . In 1783 a book was published which came to supplant the Primer in the Middle States and in parts of New England itself . This was Part I of Noah Webster's Grammatical Institute of the ...
... million a conservative estimate of its total sales . In 1783 a book was published which came to supplant the Primer in the Middle States and in parts of New England itself . This was Part I of Noah Webster's Grammatical Institute of the ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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