what decade did guinness start to publish books
Publication of the Guinness Book of World Records. The Guinness Book of Records was first published on August 27th, 1955. In its fifty years the book has sold more than a hundred million copies, which makes it the biggest selling copyright book in history, said to have been outsold only by the Bible, the Koran and Chairman Mao. Now called Guinness World Records, it sells about 3.5 million copies a year in twenty-three languages in a hundred countries.