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Uncertain Domain. The map of the U.S. publishing world is divided into three unequal sectors. The largest consists of text-and reference books-chiefly encyclopaedias-which account for 50% of book sales and most of the industry's profits. Some firms devote themselves largely to this field. Qrqwell-Collier & Macmillan, one of the giants, does an annual business of $142 million. The second sector, where profits are just as reliable, is religious publishing; the Bible steadily sells 30 million copies a year...
...map, a two-inch square of red clay about 4500 years old, used to be in the Semitic Museum, which stood on the site of the International Affairs Center until the late 1950's, when the Museum was disbanded. At that time, the map was transferred to the basement, and everyone just forgot about...
Frank Trout, Curator of Maps for the University Library, found an old report of a 1931 archeological expedition which said this map had been discovered and would soon be placed in the Semitic Museum at Harvard. Trout had never heard of the Semitic Museum, but he investigated and found out where it stood...
...sent a student on an expedition to recover the map, which was found sitting in a glass case in a basement classroom. The student made the discovery while a class was in session...
...map was discovered the first time around in the Mesopotamian city of Ga-Sur, about 200 miles north of Babylon...