Word: jovanovich
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...Betty Friedan recently shared the same fate: their books were withdrawn from paperback auction because the five-figure bids were insultingly low. There was only one bidder for Gael Greene's Doctor Love; and although Diana Trilling's Mrs. Harris went for $125,000, her publisher, William Jovanovich, says, "Two years ago, it would have brought over...
Some of those houses are already preparing for a siege by selling directly to customers: cookbooks in gourmet shops, tax guides in banks. Most have pared their lists dramatically to lower costs. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich has cut back from 110 titles in 1970 to 70 books this year. Says Jovanovich: "Nobody used to make money on first-time authors, but we considered that part of our business. Now, we can't do that." Even established writers are affected. Simon & Schuster, for instance, now retains the foreign-reprint rights-traditionally a low-register gift to the author...
Translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 153 pages...
...Diana Trilling; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 341 pages...
SHADOW MAN: THE LIFE OF DASHIELL HAMMETT by Richard Layman Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 285 pages...