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Well before its publication, this second novel by a hitherto obscure Australian had become an economic event. Harper & Row ran off 225,000 hardback copies and put up $100,000 as an initial advertising budget. The Literary Guild made the book its main selection for June, relegating Erich Segal's Oliver's Story, a dead-certain moneymaker, to second place. Avon Books shelled out $1.9 million for paperback reprint rights, topping the record $1.85 million that Bantam Books paid for E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime two years...
...with a paperback edition scheduled in the U.S. in October.* Roots is well on the way to becoming one of the bestselling books in years, though it has far to go to catch up with Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, which has sold 21 million copies, in hardback and paperback, since...
...wrong for Gerald Ford to pardon Nixon. More than 50 million people have seen the movie All the President's Men since it came out six months ago, putting it in the top 30 alltime big hits. The Woodward-Bernstein book The Final Days has sold 610,000 hardback copies in five months-one of the most successful books ever published...
This "nice symmetry" is even nicer calculation. For the historical fervor fostered by the Bicentennial promises to turn 1876 into a quasi-official happening. Prepublication signs have been uniformly bullish. Random House and Ballantine Books jointly paid Vidal an advance approaching $1 million for hardback and paperback rights. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which has made 1876 its main selection for March, shelled out more than twice its normal fee of $85,000. A first printing of 75,000 copies has virtually disappeared under a flood of orders, and a second printing...
...home while watching television. "I continue to be astonished that such a simple test should be adequate to distinguish more than 10,000 classical themes," he says modestly. His publishers are even more surprised at the volume's brisk sales. Before reviews appeared, and despite a stiff hardback price of ?6 (about $14), bookshops began reordering...