Word: book-of-the-month
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...records through major labels because of their inevitable involvement-with discount sales, Heebner plans to sell his albums by mail order-twelve LPs a year in editions of 5,000 priced at an unvarying $12.50 each. For openers, three LPs in a handsome package will be offered to Book-of-the-Month Club members this week at $17.95 for monaural and $19.95 for stereo...
James A. Michener has risen above mere writing to become an economic phenomenon. His twelve books have sold over 9,000,000 copies; seven movies have been made from his work. He created one television series, which ran for three seasons (Adventures in Paradise), and South Pacific made him the most successful single by-product of Rodgers and Hammerstein. If Michener went public, his 1963 annual report would be bullish. Caravans, his seventh novel, is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, is being condensed in the Ladies' Home Journal (for $50,000), and has already been picked...
...Beta Kappa. He stayed on after graduation in 1956, married a university librarian ("for my complete set of Wordsworth.'' she murmurs), and toiled at a first novel about the 1925 revolution in China. The book, called The Sand Pebbles, has just become the $10,000 Harper Prize novel of 1962, is a Book-of-the-Month choice for January, and has been bought by Hollywood for a minimum...
...Author Barzun's own wares in the sweetshop include paperback editions of five of his books. He is also a director (along with Fellow Intellectuals Lionel Trilling and W. H. Auden) of the Mid-Century Book Society, a kind of egghead's book-of-the-month club...
Died. Henry Seidel Canby, 82, scholarly critic who, as founder and editor (1924-36) of the Saturday Review of Literature and chief judge (1926-58) of the Book-of-the-Month Club, was literary arbiter for millions of American readers, highbrow and middlebrow alike; of cancer; in Ossining, N.Y. Biographer of Whitman and Thoreau, author or editor of nearly three dozen other books, Canby was a reliable, middle-of-the-road literary leader whose job, as he saw it, was to "pass on sound values to the reading public...