Word: nonbook
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Bible is the perfect nonbook, an anthology of self-help and inspirational works, entirely ghostwritten...
...bias. But in general, a book is a contrivance of ink, paper and glue, whose purpose is to instruct, amuse, edify, exalt, infuriate or pander. It may be good or bad, but its author intended it to be good. and wrote it by putting word after word. The nonbook is usually not written at all but assembled with the help of scissors or tape recorder or some other mechanical device. The concern of the nonbook manufacturer is not that his product be good, merely that it be sold. The nonbook is merchandise aimed at the same non-people...
Less splashy but longer established are Mel Evans and George deKay, contractors who dream up nonbook ideas, hire authors and editors, and sell the product to publishing houses. The merchandise consists mostly of such night-table cannonballs as Fateful Moments, an anthology of traumata from Joan of Arc to Helen Keller, and the Great Treasury of American Writing, warmed-over heart warmers compiled by Louis Untermeyer...