In 1953, he introduced, for Doubleday, a line of paperbacks called Anchor Books. In 1950, two hundred and fourteen million paperbacks were made in the United States, creating forty-6 million bucks in earnings. By 1953, it was approximated that there was an business-large inventory of a hundred and seventy-5 million unsold textbooks. Profitability could start out only somewhere north of a hundred thousand copies.