Word: caedmon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because they can earn considerable income," reports Albert Zuckerman, president of Writers House, Inc. "We just got a $10,000 royalty check for the audio sales of On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett, and a $35,000 advance for Buck Rodgers' The IBM Way." Producer Linda Morgenstern of Caedmon notes "the scuffle" between agent and publisher for audio rights: "There was such a slim market before, but now everyone recognizes that there is a lot of money to be made...
...black Boxer Jack Johnson, won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Ibiza, Spain. In his historical dramas, Sackler fashioned grand canvases on which self-determined men clashed against their environment. He was also a poet, screenwriter (who contributed to Jaws, then wrote Jaws 2), and director for Caedmon Records, responsible for putting the words of such writers as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and James Joyce onto vinyl...
...Caedmon, the largest spoken-word recording producer in the nation, tapes on a different track. Famous for its early renditions of literary giants and its 33 Shakespeare plays, the 30-year-old company sold one tape for every ten records in 1971. Now the ratio is 1 to 1 for its nearly 1,000 titles. Caedmon rarely offers complete books, but concentrates on authors reading in their own voices: William Faulkner rushing over the magnificent rhythms of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in a high, fast drawl; Robert Lowell stridently brave in poems about his mental illness; Ernest Hemingway growling...
...tongue of its creator: "Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you, every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it." That phrase might serve as an epigram for all taped literature. Caedmon presents Joyce, along with readers E.G. Marshall, Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack in its James Joyce Soundbook, a boxed, four-cassette package ($29.95) with Pomes Penyeach and excerpts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, among others. Other Soundbooks offer Dylan Thomas and J.R.R. Tolkien in resonant audio versions...
...zany and offbeat are also well represented on tape. British Comic Terry-Thomas is ideally cast as the reader of two "Jeeves" tales by P.G. Wodehouse (Caedmon; $12.95). Ariel, a new label, offers, among others, Humphrey Bogart as Hotspur in Henry IV on its two-volume Shakespeare in Hollywood set. And for those who cannot break the information habit, Books on Tape offers Newstrack, a bimonthly 90-minute talking magazine-garnered from the pages of TIME and other publications-for $195 per year...