Word: haldemans
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...Haldeman's Book...
...itself is all too often vague, unsubstantiated and poorly written. Newspapers and magazines that had bought serial rights to the book from the New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. were trying to renegotiate-or back out of-their agreements. They argued that 1) the Post's story on Haldeman's book had turned their expensive excerpts into damaged goods, 2) the Times had damaged them further by rushing into print after the Post's scoop, and 3) the New York Times Co. had failed to provide adequate security against premature disclosure...
...Newsweek, which paid $50,000 down for U.S. magazine rights before being undercut by the flagship daily of its own parent Washington Post Co., executives will wait to see how well Haldeman plays on the newsstands before figuring how much of the $75,000 balance they should pay. Times Syndicate officials, who had sold serialization rights to various publications for roughly $1 million, now estimate that, all in all, their take will be reduced by as much as $600,000. Times Co. officials were not yet certain that they had sufficient grounds to sue the Post Co., and Post...
Meanwhile, the nation's two major dailies took the dispute to their editorial pages. After a Times editorial accused the Post of "a second-rate burglary of H.R. Haldeman's memoir of a third-rate burglary," the Post in a lead editorial slashed back. Its coup was "first-rate enterprise," wrote the Post, adding rather guardedly that there was no evidence that the book had been obtained by burglary. The editorial pointed out reasonably enough that when a publisher goes into the business of both "news books" and newspapers, "it is almost certain to bump into some...
...book is Richard Nixon's memoirs, to be published in May by Grosset & Dunlap. The Times Syndicate also has Nixon in tow; and reports that it has signed some 50 publications in the U.S. and abroad. So far, none have backed out as a result of the Haldeman fiasco. Though security precautions are said to be even tighter than for, the Haldeman book, New York magazine last week disclosed Nixon's opening sentence ("I was born in the house my father built...