Word: paperback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...independents have reason to worry about a different kind of temptation. It is called The Reader's Catalog, a large-format, 1,382-page paperback ($24.95) describing more than 40,000 books in print, covering 208 categories ranging from Egyptian literature to sports. Readers can order selections by mail, toll-free telephone or even fax machine. The Catalog is the brainchild of Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, who is publishing it privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience...
...BELLAROSA CONNECTION by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate's second appearance of the year in a paperback original, this absorbing novella once again retails the dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America...
Saul Bellow created a lot of excitement last March when he allowed his novella A Theft to appear as a paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...
This week Massacre in Beijing: China's Struggle for Democracy ($5.95) will go on sale. Overseen by special projects editor Donald Morrison, the paperback includes eyewitness accounts and analysis of the events in Tiananmen Square from Beijing bureau chief Sandra Burton, correspondents David Aikman and Richard Hornik and reporter Jaime FlorCruz...
...stocks a huge supply of coffee table books, and has a good children's books section. As well, it is another strong fiction store and the paperback books are discounted 10 percent...