as a teacher, he soon discovered that the English schoolbooks then in use were unsatisfactory, and American Revolution reduced the supply of such books as there were Webster therefore began to work on three simple books of their kind to be published in this country . the success of the first part was surprisingly great.It was soon issued again under the title The American Spelling Book, and in this form about 80 million copies were sold during the next hundred years.From a profit of less than one cent a copy. Webster got most of his income for the rest of his life . Not only did the little book have great influence on many generations of school children, but it also had the effect of turning its author's attention to questions of language. In 1806 he produced a small Dictionary,and this was followed by his greatest work,An American Dictionary of English Language, publish in two volumes in 1828. In both of these works and in many smaller writing he had one purpose: to show that the English language in his country was a truly American thing, developing in its own special way and deserving to be considered from an independent, American point of view. As he himself wrong
his influence on American Spelling