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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 By the Numbers

Due out in October, Volume 2 of the Autobiography of Mark Twain recently hit the presses at book manufacturer Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan.

While the initial printing is 100,000 copies, the first run numbered 65,000. Take a look at what that means…

It means 250,000 lbs. of paper

Which is six truckloads worth.

It means [more...]

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Mark Twain, Fresh Off the Factory Line

The Thomson-Shore printing company in Dexter, MI is working overtime to keep up with orders for the Autobiography of Mark Twain—over 300,000 so far. To speed up delivery, they “found bigger-than-usual trucks to carry books to warehouses in Richmond, Calif., and Ewing, N.J. — the trucks carry 10,000 copies instead of the usual [more...]

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