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Subscription lists Many 18th- and 19th-century books come with lists of those who pledged to buy a copy or more. These lists are extremely valuable to understand who felt attracted to read a certain book. FactGrid would be an ideal medium to gather and aggregate such information since here we can be completely happy with information that does not begin with much more than a handful of triples on family name, given name, gender, occupation or status, place of home address and the title of the respective book. We are at the same moment able to offer rich information of people and objects wherever we have it. It would be easy to giove social profiles of the audience or (see the example below) an age profile of the reader group that was interested in a particular book project: Exemplary subscription list: List of subscribers to: Leben und Thaten des weisen Junkers Don Quixote von Mancha (1777). Example of a subscriber: Johann Joachim Christoph Bode Example of a subscription subscription of: Leben und Thaten des weisen Junkers Don Quixote von Mancha (Weimar, 1775–1777). Sample query: Work is Bertuch's new 1775/77 edition of Don Quixote. Wo issued the subscription? Show all subscribers and fetch from their data sets their dates of birth and (if the have) their later Illuminati-names, order by these age all subscriptions on FactGrid sample search The last search is interesting as it gives a model how to go from the subscription Item:Q195049 into one of items interconnected here - in this case into the people who are listed as subscribers. From there we get their dates of birth, but we could just as well get their data on clubs and societies they attended. We could do the same with the other parameters included and understand what publiching housed attracted what audiences.