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...preferred": American, Click, Collier's, Coronet, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Liberty, LIFE, Look, National Geographic, Newsweek, New Yorker, Omnibook, Pic, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Saturday Evening Post, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Snafu | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Omnibook magazine, for example, runs about one-quarter of original volumes, Reader's Digest slightly less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ballyhoo Biz | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Next month, people who can afford to pay 50? for a magazine and have the time to read 30,000 word "abridgments" will be offered Omnibook, published and edited by Robert Kenneth Straus, New York City Councilman and son of Jesse Isadore Straus, late Macy store tycoon and Ambassador to France. Each Omnibook page will contain four book pages with margins trimmed. Each number will include about 100 pages from each of five books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Books Abridged | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...permission to abridge a book, Omnibook will pay publishers $500. While the strongest objection to boiling down books comes from authors, some publishers have also balked at Omnibook's plans. Short digests, they feel, might whet a reader's appetite for the whole book; long abridgments, they suspect, might satisfy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Books Abridged | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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