Ricky Lee Grove

Thank you for visiting my website. You'll find information about me and my activities/social media here. If you came here looking for the actor Richard Grove , you've found him. For some crazy reason, I chose to use Richard as my first name while working as an actor in Hollywood. I have a separate post devoted to Richard Grove's acting career.  At present, I am producing a podcast about paperbacks called " The Paperback Show " and participating in a podcast about machinima (3D movies made within video games) called " And Now For Something Completely Machinima ".  I am also an online bookseller  on  eBay  and Etsy under the name " Grove Used Books " . In addition to books, I also sell collectibles, DVDs, and comic books.  Lastly, I have social media pages on Instagram and Facebook . My Flickr page contains all of my found photographs and photos I've taken over the years.  You'll find more detailed info on each of these activities in se...

  Early in the paperback revolution (started in 1939), Pocket Books decided to try a paperback book vending machine. 50 paperback books for a quarter each. It was an interesting idea, but it failed in the end because readers wanted to actually handle and look at the books they were buying. Unlike candy or coffee, which is uniform in content, books vary by plot, genre and cover art.  According to this article , two years after the first Book-O-Mat was released, an updated version was created by Rock Ola, a company that specialized in slot machines and juke boxes. Apparently, it failed as well. However, it looked like a much better design than the original, since you could actually see the covers of the paperbacks