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There are about 11 million companies in the U.S. classified as small. Of these, 3.4 million do $5 million or less in business each year and employ fewer than 100 workers. Nonetheless, bantam businesses contribute a surprising 43% to the gross national product. Between 1969 and 1976, according to David Birch, urban studies professor at M.I.T., two-thirds of the economy's new jobs came from firms with 20 or fewer employees. At least half of the nation's private work force is in some way dependent on small business. General Motors, for example, has 55,000 small...
...watching spawn swim downstream to salmon. An idea is "developed" by film executives, a writer is recruited to amplify the notion into a novel, and then the book is converted to celluloid. The trend has become widespread: Simon & Schuster Editor David Obst recently moved his offices to Hollywood, and Bantam Books has established a film-production company in Los Angeles. Its acquisitions editor Charles Bloch regards the cinema-literary process as "a sophisticated methodology of people who have an interest in both books and movies so that they can put two and two together and get five...
Finished reading Judith Krantz's new novel under a rented hair dryer, as you suggested, got a bad case of the frizzies but not the answer to the big question: Why did Bantam Books shell out a record $3.2 million for the paperback rights? That may not be much by Hollywood standards, but in publishing, it is long, long bread any way you slice it. It is enough to give a dollar bill to every man, woman and child in New Zealand, with change left over to pay a major league utility infielder for a year. Put it another...
This simply cannot be all there is to it, chief. The folks at Bantam did not pay all that money just to make Judith Krantz happy. They know something, and we should ferret it out. Suggestion: Why not send the reviewer off on an expense-account tour of some of the glamorous locales in the novel? To Venice, for instance, a room at the Gritti Palace, drinks and long languorous meals at Harry's Bar. The secret of this book may rest right there. Look how this magical place affects the heroine: "Venice inspired her to meet its fantasy...
Last week, like proud parents of a sickly child who suddenly won the bantam championship, AMC announced that profits more than doubled, to a record $83.9 million on sales of $3.1 billion for the fiscal year ended in September. True, earnings declined in the industry's dismal last quarter, but they were down less than those at the Big Three. In October, AMC rode up again: car sales surged 37%, while they sank 21% for the industry as a whole...