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By 1964, sales reached one million Notes annually. CliffsNotes now exist for hundreds of works. The term "Cliff's Notes" has become a proprietary eponym for similar products. IDG Books purchased CliffsNotes in 1998 for $14.2 million. John Wiley & Sons acquired IDG Books (renamed Hungry Minds) in 2001.
The Coles bookstore first published Coles Notes in 1948. The first title published was on the French novella Colomba by Prosper Mérimée. [1] [2] In 1958, Jack Cole and Carl Cole, founders of Coles, sold the U.S. rights to Coles Notes to Cliff Hillegass who then published the books under CliffsNotes. By 1960, Coles notes sales had peaked.
Those close relationships gave him the first outlets for the Notes. Sales expanded rapidly as high school students began to buy the slim yellow and black pamphlets. By the early 1970s the company had created additional study aids—exam reviews, course outlines, law school materials, and test preparation kits for the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT.
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An IP user has raised a good question in an edit using the "when" tag (see article history): When was CliffsNotes formerly Cliffs Notes and when was Cliffsnotes originally Cliff's Notes? I removed the "when" tag as it is clutter and frankly I have my doubts as to whether dates can be attributed to dating the use of Cliffs Notes and Cliff's ...
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60second Recap is an educational video project launched in September 2009 to provide 60-second video summaries and analysis of classic literature.The site provides one-minute video commentaries on plot, themes, characters, symbols, motifs, and other aspects of books commonly studied in secondary schools in North America.