Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Frank Egner : oral history, 1956Biographical NotePublishing executive
Scope and ContentsMcGraw-Hill Book Company from World War II: success as technical publisher, mail selling and risks involved, internal competition, Whittlesey House, stock and storage problems, book pirating, comparison with other publishers; purchase of Blakiston Company and discussion of medical publishing: book jobbers and medical schools, advertising, manuscript procurement, research, competition; extensive discussion of mail order selling, market access and manuscript acceptance; quality of McGraw-Hill market; Martin Foss, James H. McGraw
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