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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 ...
[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.
The Book League of America, Inc. was a US book publisher and mail order book sales club.It was established in 1930, a few years after the Book of the Month Club. [1] Its founder was Lawrence Lamm, previously an editor at Macmillan Inc. [1] The company was located at 100 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, [2] in a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m 2) office building that was constructed in 1906 ...
Nelson Doubleday (June 16, 1889 – January 11, 1949) was an American book publisher and president of Doubleday Company from 1922–1946. His father Frank Nelson Doubleday had founded the business. His son Nelson Doubleday Jr. followed him into it, taking part in expansion and serving as president from 1978–1986.
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 ...
The book was published on the heels of The Shining (1977 Doubleday) and is King's fifth published book (including Rage, which was published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman). Nine of the twenty stories had first appeared in issues of Cavalier Magazine from 1970 to 1975; others were originally published in Penthouse , Cosmopolitan ...
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 ]