{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence, statements, sales reports, and stock reports document Ecco's sale of books through distributors and bookstores in the United States and England, as well as their fulfilling direct orders for books and subscriptions to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>.</p> <p>The bulk of this subseries is records produced by the Ecco Press's relationship with two larger publishers, Viking Press (Viking Penguin, Inc.) and W. W. Norton & Company. These companies distributed Ecco Press books and <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> from 1972 until 1981 and from 1981 to 1999 respectively. These records include weekly, monthly, and sometimes annual sales reports, stock reports (see especially Viking's final stock reports, 1981, which record all sales of Ecco titles), receiving reports, and statements. These publishers not only fulfilled orders for and stored Ecco books, but also helped produce and promote them; the statements reflect these other services with charges for transportation, advertising, copy-editing, printing and production, in addition to the basic commission for distribution.</p>"}