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numbers, there being 196,509 reprints in all during 1906. 236,877 copies of the Emphasized Gospel of John were published during 1906. Retail mail order business amounted to $ 10,839.50 as compared with $ 8,221.11 in 1905. 100 colporters (about) at work at any one time. Fifteen regular employees at Association's headquarters in Chicago. Twenty-two depots of supply for the Association's colporters in the United States and elsewhere.”
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Colportage novels were serial novels, sold door-to-door by colporters, popular in the late 19th century. Buyers would purchase a subscription to future novels in the series. One popular subject was fictionalization of current events; for example, the early volumes of a serial colportage novel about
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In 1906 the Institute reported, “he volume of business transacted was $ 76,855.33 as compared with $ 49,484.23 in 1905. The sale of Colportage Library books was 192,308 copies as compared with 192,490 copies in 1905. The vitality of this series is shown by the constant demand for even the earliest
264:, and his upstart publishing company. In 1895 the Colportage Library began the publication at regular intervals of books which met five specific criteria: 1. a popular readable style; 2. well-known authors or books of existing reputation; 3. strictly 143:. In addition to controversial works, the itinerant book-peddling colporteurs also spread widely cheap editions of the popular works of the day to an increasingly literate rural population which had little access to the book shops of the cities. 286:
By January 1, 1917, 126 titles had issued, totaling 6,718,313 copies printed. Foreign-language editions included German, Danish-Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Italian and Bohemian publications, with requests for translations in
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who were active in the full-time ministry were called colporteurs until 1931. Today, those participating in the full-time ministry are called "pioneers".
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founded the Bible Institute Colportage Association (BICA) in 1894 to provide a source for inexpensive Christian literature. Moody's son-in-law,
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Colportage became common in Europe with the distribution of contending religious tracts and books during the religious controversies of the
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as colporteurs. In addition to public preaching, distributing literature was a large part of the work of the Confederate
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founded the "Bible Institute Colportage Association" in 1894 to distribute tracts and books. Now known as
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Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) were already being sold in 1870. One author of colportage novels was
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and the American Tract Society were among the largest organizations involved in colportage in the
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calls their book distributors "literature evangelists", but until about 1980, the term
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called "colporteurs" or "colporters". The term does not necessarily refer to religious
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In 1941, after more than 12 million books in this series had been sold, BICA became
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Maine (1905) and Vermont (1907) Baptist Colportage Wagons, with colporters.
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Selling fiction : the German colportage novel 1871-1914
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Index

Colporteur

Brittany
publications
books
religious
tracts
carriers
book peddling
French
portmanteau
British and Foreign Bible Society

Reformation
American Tract Society
chaplains
American Civil War
Army of Northern Virginia
American Bible Society
United States
D. L. Moody
Moody Publishers
Moody Bible Institute
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Jehovah's Witnesses
Karl May


D. L. Moody
A. P. Fitt

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