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Less feisty bookmen admit that they are already moving unsold books out of their warehouses at an accelerated pace. Says Viking Treasurer Theodore Flam: "We're talking about a reverse effect on cash flow. We are losing money on our inventory, and we can't afford to. We might not be publishing the marginal, slower-selling books any longer. It's costing publishers tax money up front now. Publishing, in the end, will lose out." Hard-pressed houses are being forced to remainder their stock (sell it at a large discount and turn the loss into...
Publishing was once the last refuge of politesse. Take the matter of advances, for example-those cash payments against future royalties. Seldom was a tardy writer pressed to repay; the image of a company bearing down on a lonely writer was too distasteful for bookmen to contemplate...
Despite her tendency to glower, Queen Victoria was not by any means a "puritanical old she-dragon breathing fire and brimstone." Or so says Prince Charles, 27, defending his great-great-great-grandmum in next month's issue of the British literary magazine Books and Bookmen. The heir apparent claims that Victoria was greatly misunderstood because of her famous judgment: "We are not amused." Actually, she was a "charming character" who "adored" a good laugh, says the prince. He cites, for example, an encounter between the Queen and a Scotch preacher named James MacGregor. In a service for Victoria...
Delicious Dust. In a consuming search for Walpoliana, Lewis alerted bookmen, placed ads in newspapers and spent endless hours in libraries and bookstores. "I have had my share of dust," he says, "and it has been delicious. I saw all the unwanted Walpoliana lying about and felt like Sinbad in the Cave of Diamonds." He gleefully made off with prints once owned by Walpole that he saw hanging unrecognized in friends' houses. Once he tracked down 400 letters Walpole had written to a lady friend; they had languished in a London attic wrapped in old corset strings...
...Romney campaign biographies-is only one instance of the perils of hard-cover handicapping. Until recently, writers and publishers had all but forgotten Hubert Humphrey, except for an anti-H.H.H. tract entitled The Rise and Fall of a Liberal. They had virtually overlooked Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon. Bookmen had also underrated Eugene McCarthy, who perspicaciously published a collection of his own views last fall. But they hardly ignored Bobby Kennedy, who has been the subject of about one book a month in the past...