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ONE MILLION MAGAZINES A YEAR

BRITAIN’S EXPORT OF READING MATTER Bombs and U-boats have failed to stop the flow of books, magazines and periodicals going overseas from Bri- ! tain. In the month of February the leading; British firms of wholesalers, which handles about half the total trade, dispatched to oversea customers about 85 tons of reading matter, including 35.000 magazines and periodicals. Britain's revenue from the sale of books, copyrights and so on. amounts to over .114.000,000 a year, and it is striking evidence of the demand for 1 English works abroad that this repre- ' cents nearly one-half of Britain’s home trade of £10.000.000. Its value to Bri-! tain's war effort is shown by the fact ! that a book sold at. say, 7s fid. costs j only 3d or so in imported raw materials < About 75 per cent, ot Britain's ex- < ports go to the East especially India i and Malaya: the rest is fairly evenly * distributed throughout the rest of the I world All kinds of books, from tech- * meal treatises to the latest popular i novel, are included. In a typical par- . cel now on its way to Peru, for example. were “Their Finest Hour,” Allan Michie and Walter Graeber's pic- j lure of Britain at War; Grey’s' 1 “Anatomy”; Mrs Beeton's classic i £ “Everyday Cookery”; Black’s "Medical’ Adviser”: “Aeroplane Studies”: Bar- 1 tholomew's “Atlas of the World"; and 1 1 Sir Bannister Fletcher's 'Comparative 1 Architecture.”

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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 May 1941, Page 5

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ONE MILLION MAGAZINES A YEAR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 May 1941, Page 5

ONE MILLION MAGAZINES A YEAR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 May 1941, Page 5

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