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. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org