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[1] The Book-of-the-Month Club (founded 1926) is an early and well known example of this kind of business. Others include the Science Fiction Book Club, the Mystery Book Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club, all of which are run by Booksonline / Doubleday Entertainment (a subsidiary of Bookspan). The largest book of the month clubs had ...
Free shipping clubs -- which require members to pay money upfront to receive free shipping -- sound suspiciously like yet another scheme from online retailers to milk more money out shoppers, but ...
[7] [8] By 1947, Doubleday was the largest publisher in the United States, with annual sales of more than 30 million books. [citation needed] In 1954, Doubleday sold Blakiston to McGraw-Hill. [9] Doubleday's son-in-law John Sargent was president and CEO from 1963 to 1978. In 1964, Doubleday acquired the educational publisher Laidlaw. [10]
In May 1953 Sargent married Neltje Doubleday, who was 18. [2] She was the granddaughter of the late Frank N. Doubleday, who founded the Doubleday publishing company in 1897. [2] The couple had a daughter Ellen and son John Turner Sargent Jr. After they divorced in 1965, Neltje Doubleday Sargent moved with their children to Wyoming.
Book Club Associates (BCA) was a mail-order and online book selling company in the United Kingdom. It came to dominate the mail-order book-club business in the U.K. in the 1970s and 1980s through extensive advertising in Sunday newspaper colour supplements and elsewhere, and became the largest mail-order bookseller in the U.K. The firm ...
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The Literary Guild was established in 1927 by Samuel W. Craig and Harold K. Guinzberg as a competitor to the Book of the Month Club, which had started in the previous year. Craig asserted that he first incorporated the company in 1922 and reincorporated it in 1926 after hearing of the success of similar book clubs in Germany. [ 1 ]
Dust jacket photo, 1953. Paul Darcy Boles (March 5, 1916 - May 4, 1984) was an American author, as well as working in radio, television and advertising. [1] [2] His more than 150 short stories [3] appeared in many American and European periodicals, including Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Saturday Evening Post, [2] Seventeen, [4] Playboy, and Cosmopolitan. [5]