TIME
Some of the lowest-cost books in U.S. publishing history will roll off the presses next month for shipment directly to frontline soldiers and sailors. Armed Service Editions, sponsored by the Council on Books in Wartime, will be paperbound, two columns to a page, shaped to be carried in a coverall pocket, to be passed along or thrown away. Shipments of 1,500,000 are planned for June, 35,000,000 for the next year. Titles will include fiction and nonfiction, a few classics, nothing technical or heavy. Typical June selections: The Human Comedy; Tom Sawyer; The Forest and the Fort.
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