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== Company history ==

CliffsNotes was started by a [[Nebraska]] native named [[Clifton Hillegass]] in 19181958. He was working at [[Nebraska Book Company]] of Lincoln, Nebraska, when he met Jack Cole, the co-owner of [[Coles (bookstore)|Coles]], a Toronto book business. Coles published a series of [[Canada|Canadian]] study guides called [[Coles Notes]], and sold Hillegass the U.S. rights to the guides.

Hillegass and his wife, Catherine, started the business in their basement at 511 Eastridge Drive in Lincoln, with sixteen [[William Shakespeare]] titles. By 1964 sales reached one million Notes annually. CliffsNotes now exist on hundreds of works. The term "Cliff's Notes" has now become a [[proprietary eponym]] for similar products.