How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read
by Andrew Shaffer Here ’s a small perspective : In 1939 , gasoline be 10 cent a gallon at the pump . A flick ticket set you back 20 penny . John Steinbeck’sThe Grapes of Wrath , the twelvemonth ’s bestselling hardcover book , was $ 2.75 . For a nation suffering 20 percent unemployment , Koran were an insufferable expense . But in just one twenty-four hours , Robert de Graff change that ....