Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1916 — Textbooks Sold Each Year. [ARTICLE]

Textbooks Sold Each Year.

The commerce reports state greatly exaggerated ideas prevail concerning the total number of textbooks sold in the United States each year and the annual profits resulting from such sales. Data obtained by the United States bureau of education from 43 textbook publishers in tne United States show that their aggregate total sales of textbooks for use tn public and private schools In 1913 amounted to $17,274,030. The aggregate for public school, elementary and high, amounted to $14,261,768. The total enrollment in public elementary and high schools for the year was approximately 18,609,040. Excluding the elementary school enrollment of California, since California prints its own elementary books, the number becomes 18,213,786. For each child enrolled in the public schools in the United States, therefore, the total annual sale of textbooks is 78.3 cents.