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By 1964, sales reached one million Notes annually. CliffsNotes now exist for hundreds of works. The term "Cliff's Notes" has become a proprietary eponym for similar products. IDG Books purchased CliffsNotes in 1998 for $14.2 million. John Wiley & Sons acquired IDG Books (renamed Hungry Minds) in 2001.
Those close relationships gave him the first outlets for the Notes. Sales expanded rapidly as high school students began to buy the slim yellow and black pamphlets. By the early 1970s the company had created additional study aids—exam reviews, course outlines, law school materials, and test preparation kits for the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT.
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The word "cliff" will probably go down as the most overused word of 2012. We've all heard the phrases "patent cliff" and "fiscal cliff" so much that we're ready to throw our television sets off a ...
The Coles bookstore first published Coles Notes in 1948. The first title published was on the French novella Colomba by Prosper Mérimée. [1] [2] In 1958, Jack Cole and Carl Cole, founders of Coles, sold the U.S. rights to Coles Notes to Cliff Hillegass who then published the books under CliffsNotes. By 1960, Coles notes sales had peaked.
Clifford J. Levy (born June 15, 1967 in New Rochelle, New York) is deputy publisher of two New York Times Company publications, the Wirecutter and The Athletic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and was considered one of the main architects of the digital transformation of The New York Times in the 2010s.
An IP user has raised a good question in an edit using the "when" tag (see article history): When was CliffsNotes formerly Cliffs Notes and when was Cliffsnotes originally Cliff's Notes? I removed the "when" tag as it is clutter and frankly I have my doubts as to whether dates can be attributed to dating the use of Cliffs Notes and Cliff's ...
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