The Paperback RevolutionFrom the 1935 launch of Britain’s Penguin until 1960 – the year in which dollar sales from paperback books first surpassed those of hardcovers – the paperback revolutionized the readership, marketing, distribution, circulation, and reception of books and reading in the United States, Canada, and many other nations. This website begins an investigation into this history with the dual aim of inspiring further interest and research into both paperback history in general and in our local repository, The Edmonton Collection.
Their Animated Paperback Timeline is nicely done.
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A contest to win $750 from faber and faber. I don’t know what faber and faber is, but it’s penguin.ca so I figured it was on-topic at least.
http://www.penguin.ca/static/cs/cn/0/contests/sept04fabercontest.html
(Editor’s note: I have to fix the display of URLs in the Recent Comments list if they’re in the first sentence.)
What’s (4 + 4) x 8 ÷ 16?