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...week. B. Dalton, a subsidiary of Dayton Hudson Corp., the department store conglomerate, is the second largest bookseller. Dalton too has been growing at a feverish rate in recent years and has 339 stores in 40 states. Other chains include Doubleday stores, an affiliate of the publishing house, and Brentano's, an affiliate of Macmillan. The chains account for up to half of all hardcover retail sales, and their share of the market grows every month...
...Chicago, another big book-buying city, Dalton is taking on the long established Kroch's & Brentano's regional chain, competing side by side in two downtown locations and four suburban sites. Kroch's, which has a reputation as a quality bookseller with an interest in the literary field, continues to operate in the old tradition; its sales people, for instance, often phone customers to alert them to new books that they might like. Against this, Dalton offers a plethora of autograph parties featuring such guests as Charlton Heston and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, and some selective...
...Harvard Coop, which has one of the biggest book departments in the East, reports a dramatic boom in Trollope, and stores in Ann Arbor, Mich., home of the University of Michigan, say that they cannot stock enough of his books to satisfy customers. In New York City, Brentano's notes a steady sale; for a heady three-week period in February and March, Trollope was even one of their best sellers. Taking careful account of the market, Berkley paperbacks has brought out a one-volume condensation of the six Palliser novels-with 250,000 copies already in print...
Intimidation draws salesmen and Ringer's fellow graduates of "Screw U.," his updated term for the School of Hard Knocks. Brentano's, a bookstore chain that promotes Intimidation heavily, says the book is moving fast in all its stores...
...their expertise increases, players can try out more complicated variations of the game. Explains Jose Ballester, assistant games buyer for the Brentano's bookstore chain: "Chance plays an important element in the first three tries. After that it's logic." In fact, manufacturers of educational materials such as Cuisenaire in New Rochelle, N.Y., and J.L. Hammett based in Braintree, Mass, are already promoting the game to teach logic in the classroom...