About This Book
This book is intended as a survey history of the American record business as it developed during its first full century. It already existed, just barely, when the century began, and by the start of the twenty-first century, whatever its troubles, it had become a very big business: 785 million albums...
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7h 40m
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180 WPM
5h 31m
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250 WPM
3h 57m
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350 WPM
📖 82,775 words📅 12 days at 30 min/day
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