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Long before
Everything
, long before the
internet
there was the
Little Blue Books
. Created by
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius
in 1919 these were small
low price
paperback
pocketbook
s that were intended to sweep the ranks of the
working class
as well as the "
educated
" class. The idea was to get works of
literature
, a wide range of
ideas
,
common sense
knowledge
and various
points of view
out to as large an audience as possible. For a
nickel
anyone could
purchase
a
volume
of the
collection
of over 2,000 titles known as the
Little Blue Books
In just nine years the
idea
caught on all around the
globe
. The
Little Blue Books
were finding their ways into the pockets of
laborers
,
scholars
and the average
citizen
alike. The
St. Louis Dispatch
called Julius "the
Henry Ford
of
literature
". Amongst the better known names of the day to support the
Little Blue Books
were
Emperor
Haile Selassie
of
Ethiopia
, Admiral
Richard Byrd
, who took along a complete set to the
South Pole
,
Franklin P. Adams
of
Information Please
and the thousands of average folks who purchased the
Little Blue Books
through a
mail order
system and latter in
book stores
.
Because the
topics
of the
Little Blue Books
covered
political
ideas and a wide scope of
religious
views
as well as
literature
and
general knowledge
, the
FBI
viewed his
achievements
as a
threat
and landed him on their
enemies
list. At the time of his
death
in 1951
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius
had done something that
transcended
the
paranoia
of the
establishment
, for a
nickel
he
offered
everyone
access
to a
world
of
learning
.
I have had the
opportunity
to actually
hold
a few of these. Its pretty
humbling
if you let the scope
sweep
over you. Here are these
discrete
chunks
of
knowing
that were available for a
few cents
. The size of the
books
are such they could easily fit in a
shirt pocket
. A worker could have a few tucked in their
shirt pocket
ready for the
reading
at any spare moment. It was more
accessible
then the
net
is now for most people. Until we get
affordable
wireless
PDA
s with affordable access to something like
Project Gutenberg
or
Everything
we are still lacking the
scope
and
penetration
the
Little Blue Books
had. This is not to
knock
what we have done on the
net
, its just to point out that we are
standing on the shoulders of giants
and have
miles to go before we sleep
.
A great
resource
for
learning
more about the
Little Blue Books
is http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxhjulius.html
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