Phonograph record a "De luxe" price. Later, Decca Records introduced vinyl Deccalite 78s, while other record companies used vinyl formulations trademarked as Metrolite, Merco Plastic, and Sav-o-flex, but these were mainly used to produce "unbreakable" children's records and special thin vinyl DJ pressings for shipment to radio stations. In the 1890s, the recording formats of the earliest (toy) discs were mainly 12.5 cm (nominally 5 inches) in diameter; by the mid-1890s, the discs were usually 7 inches (nominally 17.5 cm) in diameter. By 1910, the 10-inch (25.4 cm) record was by far the most popular standard, holding about of music or other
Nine Inches on to state that he found the ancillary characters to be a "splendid supporting cast" and that, of the novel as a whole, "once "Nine Inches" gets going... it turns into a dark, violent urban thriller". The novel was also reviewed by Maureen Carlyle for "Shots", who opined that "if you can stand the extreme violence and the ripe language, this is a pacey tale, and you can't dislike Dan, no matter how hard you try". Reviewing for "The Daily Telegraph", Mark Sanderson stated, of Bateman, "the biggest mystery about "Nine Inches", a tale of kidnap and general cack-handedness, is