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Download full textTrollinger, William V.; Kaestle, Carl F. – 1986
This study assessed the readability of popular print material (newspapers, magazines, and books) published in 1920. Selected passages from these books and articles were analyzed using the Flesch Reading Ease test and other, more theoretically interesting and relevant, readability formulas. Results indicated that "highbrow" publications…
Descriptors: Adults, Content Analysis, Educational History, Fiction
Woodward, Fred E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The rapid increase in the number of books published in the United States, especially during the past decade, has been the subject of much comment. Statistics are collected regularly by the trade papers, and these figures give the number of books for each year in each of several well-defined classes. There are at the present time 24 classes: as…
Descriptors: Books, United States History, Publishing Industry, Surveys
