Pyles’ reports that Unfortunately Webster, who was extremely good at the promotion of his books was not a very good man of business "1952: 98). Webster had sold the rights to The American Spelling Book and thus did not accrue royalties on. most of the millions sold, and he had to borrow money to finance both the first and second editions of the American Dictionary so that they, in Pyles' words did not pile up much of a profit '(1952: 120). Still, the success of Webster's promotional efforts created one of the most successful textbooks of all time and made his name, in America at least, synonymous with the dictionary. Pyles did not like him, as this description shows: "Webster was smug. Self- assured. And pugnacious in his pedantry as in his Puritanism and his patriotism: the right cousness of his later portraits sccms always to have dour, thin-lipped. Jut. -jawed been characteristic or him (1952: 94). But he still ofered the following summary assessment (1952: 123):