That'a a peculiar definition of "doing good", but your vote is worth as much as mine. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Marcello Perathoner < marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
On 10/16/2012 07:38 PM, don kretz wrote:
Wikipedia view of the significance of McGuffey:
It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible<http://en.wikipedia.org/**wiki/Bible<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible>>and Webster's Dictionary<http://en.**wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%**27s_Dictionary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary>>. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person's name has come close to that mark.
The Kama Sutra has been going at a rate of approx. 20,000 per MONTH from PG alone.
The proposed McGuffey had only 330 downloads last month. You can do ~60 times more good by doing the Kama Sutra.
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