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...that help people. With such books, notably Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (12 million copies sold in all editions), Shimkin has helped to build Simon & Schuster, in which he is a partner, into one of the nation's heartiest publishers specializing in hardback books...
...English translation of the book is probably neither as precise nor as eloquent as the original French. In my borrowed hardback copy, for instance, Mr. Lacouture had to write in several corrections. But the few errors are trivial; and the concise historical narrative, perceptive analysis, and original imagery more than compensate for the difficulties of the translation...
...abhors leaving his Manhattan house on business, and never goes near a sports car or chases a blonde. While thus ignoring Bondomania and its sibling rivals, Stout and Wolfe are doing just fine. If The Doorbell Rang holds true to recent form, it will sell at least 60,-000 hardback copies and 1,000,000 in paperback...
...book publisher, who in 1955 accepted a manuscript that five other publishers had rejected, spent a year editing and toning down its lurid, sex-studded account of small-town U.S. life, saw the gamble pay off as Grace Metalious' Peyton Place sold over 300,000 copies of her hardback edition and later brought in handsome royalties from 8,000,000 paperback sales; after a long illness; in West Long Branch...
...Hardback and paperback sales were evenly divided...