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Notwithstanding that this letter is both impressive and compelling, there is one little error that I am sure you would desire to have called to your attention. That is the line "TIME is the fastest-growing non-fiction magazine...
...little more than five years ago and today has a circulation of practically 900,000. We have just announced an increase in advertising rates effective in January, 1928, with a guarantee of 1,000,000 circulation. There has never been, in the history of magazine publishing, a non-fiction magazine whose circulation has grown so rapidly. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, there has never been a home publication whose circulation has ever exceeded a half-million without fiction and fashions. Better Homes and Gardens has neither...
...year's grand total was some nine million copies?an increase of 600,000 over 1925. The Society implied this made the Bible by far the most influential book printed in the U. S. The 600,000 increase alone dwarfs the 1925 sale of any so-called "bestseller" of fiction, technical instruction, free verse or whatever...
...FICTION...
...newspapers. His pains are apparent. In minor characters, in tumble-down witticisms, he never relaxes his tenacious insistence on bare, unpolished prose. Judiciously he inserts pathos, romance, irony, etc. All the qualities present in Drums are more than ever present in Marching On. Drums was a moving, methodical, historical fiction; this is a better...