on march 26, 1830 the "wayne sentinel" announced that book of mormon was now on sale at grandin's bookstore. it had taken eight men and boys working 12 hours a day, six days a week, for almost eight months to print the 5,000 copies. after the book went on sale, the boycott began. it was successful and few books were sold, martin harris, who had mortgaged his farm to pay for the publication, desperately tried to sell the books himself but lamented that "no body [sic] wants them."