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...cutbacks are just beginning. Says Louis Wolfe, president of Bantam, the largest U.S. paperback house: "We're paying more attention to what we pay up front and with good reason. We can't afford a lot of money for what might be a big book and then find out it isn't. We have to have a bottom-line profit, and we can no longer afford to keep some of the hard-cover publishing houses going." Shatzkin is less sanguine: "There will definitely be failures among the original trade publishers...
...publishing circles, the cubists are hotter than Harold Robbins. With 6 million copies in print, The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube, a 64-page booklet written by Stanford Chemist James Nourse, has become the fastest-selling title in the history of Bantam Books, outpacing Jaws and Valley of the Dolls. Buoyed by the acute aggravation of frustrated cube twiddlers, Nourse's book has topped bestseller lists in the U.S. and around the world from New Zealand to Nigeria. Says John May, managing director of George's Booksellers in Bristol, England: "The cube phenomenon is the biggest...
Hughes. With that same cheery, golden bantam innocence, Dummar has now launched a Nevada nightclub act. Booked into a two-week stand at the Sahara in Reno, he has included two bittersweet Dummar compositions in his act, The Ail-American Dreamer and Thank You Howard...
...still has a mug that would halt traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, it may be that the gravel-voiced master of hard-boiled detective fiction has finally gone soft. Spillane, 63, has taken to writing children's books. His first, The Day the Sea Rolled Back (Bantam, $1.75), is about two boys on a search for buried treasure. They run into a couple of villains who might have felt at home in any one of Mickey's eleven Mike Hammer mysteries. The bad guys are grownups, of course. "Kids always see adults as villains," says Spillane. "Other...
Concludes Bantam Vice President Rollene Saal: "I have a fantasy that as the sun sets across the land, the typewriters come out and the ladies go to work...