Phonograph record Gramophone trademark, Berliner started marketing records of 7 inches diameter with somewhat more substantial entertainment value, along with somewhat more substantial gramophones to play them. Berliner's records had poor sound quality compared to wax cylinders, but his manufacturing associate Eldridge R. Johnson eventually improved it. Abandoning Berliner's "Gramophone" trademark for legal reasons, in 1901 Johnson's and Berliner's separate companies reorganized to form the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, whose products would come to dominate the market for many years. Emile Berliner moved his company to Montreal in 1900. The factory, which became the Canadian branch of RCA
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