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...catalog, which was published last week. It is a thick paragon of low-intensity salesmanship: plain cream cover, small gray type, no objet d'art staring from it--which is only proper, since what Sotheby's is selling is spiritual contact. Some 100,000 copies are available, at $90 (hardback) and $45 (soft). This print run will probably take care of the cost of the color plates, which are many and which reproduce such treasures as Lot 924, "A Set of Six French Stoneware Butter Pots, Modern," estimate $75 to $100. The catalog lists 1,195 lots...
...moral conflict, that don't engage in gratuitous violence, sex and questionable language," says Phyllis Tickle, religion editor of Publishers Weekly. The tribulations of pretty Ariana, the chaste, Bible-memorizing heroine of Janette Oke's A Gown of Spanish Lace (Bethany House; 251 pages; $14.99), have enticed 238,000 hardback-book buyers so far--more than the latest novels by Jackie Collins, John Irving or James Michener. Such outsize commercial success does not register on most newspapers' best-seller lists because religious bookstores are not canvassed...
...sequel." He anticipates a critical drubbing, and probably deserves one. The book (it's six years after Jurassic Park, we're on a Costa Rican island, and the earth trembles .) has a cutting-room-floor feeling to it: outtakes. No matter; the national release of 2 million hardback copies is one of the biggest in history, and Spielberg is already storyboarding it for the movies--though he hasn't yet decided whether he will direct...
Bill Cosby started the trend in 1986 with Fatherhood. A bunch of his stand- up material collected in 178 easy-to-read pages. Sold 2.5 million copies in hardback and spent 55 weeks on the best-seller list. Then last year came SeinLanguage, which has sold 1.2 million so far. Like people aren't getting enough of this guy on Thursday nights...
Voyager's software displays the text on clean white pages that replicate the design of the hardback rather than using the scrolling strings of text so familiar to computer users. A touch of a button turns the page or allows the reader to flip back and forth. Users can dog-ear the corner of a page to mark their place, or attach an electronic paper clip for easy reference. Passages can be underscored or marked on the side, and there are generous margins for putting down notes...