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>and Webster's
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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Marcello Perathoner
webmaster@gutenberg.org
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