Word: backlist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...longest sellers. Though it takes from three to ten years to prepare a good textbook, once it wins educators' approval it sells for years with only periodic revisions. Last year 94.7% of Harcourt, Brace's school text sales and 80.3% of its college sales were from its backlist...