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Today, Boston's seven publishing houses--Little, Brown; Houghton Mifflin; Ginn; Beacon Press; D. C. Heath; Atlantic Monthly Books; and Allyn and Bacon--bear little resemblance to their ancestral forebears. The monotype and the large commercial enterprise have supplanted moveable type and the hand craftsman. Where once a printer set every individual letter, made a separate impression for each page, and bound them all under a fine leather cover, now machines handle almost every phase of the printing process...
...small though significant Boston firm, the Beacon Press, frequently sets out "to take a beating" on a book which "deserves to be published," in the words of its editor Melvin Arnold. Sponsored by the American Unitarian Association, the house publishes no more than 20 cloth-bound books a year. But its influence far outweighs its size. "Specializing in public controversy," according to Arnold, the Beacon Press was founded in the nineteenth century to publish sermons, and it still prints "books that we feel should be published." Among the better known of its recent polemics were Paul Blanshard's attack...
Nonetheless, the Beacon Press is also expected by its sponsors to be self-supporting. Within the past six months, Arnold has launched a series of paperbacks to compensate for losses on his "public service" books...
Royalties have also tumbled in from other sources, including the book club, the booming new entertainment trend in publishing. Individual companies have also formed their own clubs to distribute cheaper, second-run editions of their own books. Little, Brown from behind its sleepy, genteel front on Beacon Street uses this production technique to keep its accounts balanced...
Peron's immature character was revealed in the events leading to the revolution. Hell-bent as he was, the love of a wise, well-educated, warm-hearted grown-up would have been a burden." --Editorial in the Wichita (Kansas) Beacon...