The Paper Chase

Robert Fair De Graff revolutionized the market of pocket books through Simon & Schuster in May, 1939 and tapped into a huge reservoir of Americans who nobody realized  wanted to read. With iPhone , e-books , a new revolution in portable publishing appeared of recently but the true revolution began with De Graff whose paperback made reading into an activity that travels everywhere.
Do you know that 30 million trees are cut down annually to produce books in USA?
(Smithsonian.com , May 2013;p14)