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Published in slowly increasing numbers throughout the 1950s and 1960s, paperback romance novels blossomed during the 1970s into a mass entertainment medium that by 1985 accounted for about 40 percent of all mass market paperback books published in the United States, with twenty million readers and close to a half- billion dollars in annual sales.
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