The Council on Books in Wartime was created in 1942 by a group of publishing executives. The Council distributed cheap paperbacks to American soldiers fighting across the world, to boost morale. By 1947 they had printed 123 million copies of 1,322 titles. It cost around 8 million dollars. The program was extremely successful – soldiers in the field often tore their book at the halfway mark, so another soldier could start reading it too.
07 janeiro 2017
Paperbacks For America!
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