It's all about books!
The earliest surviving scrolls date from 2400 BC. A long time and far from the millions of books available today. But perhaps the books that spurred the American masses into readers were the Dime Novels.
One of the first and most notable companies was formed by Erastus and Irwin Beadle. Their first book was put out in 1860. It was roughly the size of a small paperback and had a 100 pages and sold 60,000 copies in the first months.
Most of the stories were about the west & frontier and centered around a hero and his adventures.
Later, to save cost, the books were printed on larger paper and were only 32 pages looking more like a magazine than book.
But we can thank the Dime Novel for spurring Americans into readers hungry for story. And we haven't changed. We still want to read a good story.
You can go on Amazon and still find reprinted Dime Novels, of course, they aren't a dime anymore. : )
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