Word: paperback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book were reprinted in various magazines, and the more outrageous passages were quoted and passed around. Now an assured hit that was sold out in bookshops weeks before its publication date, Portnoy's Complaint has already brought Roth a $250,000 advance on royalties, $350,000 in paperback sales...
...notables such Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America and special "his and hers" subscriptions to Mayor and Mrs. White). Before the 15 cents price tag was added, bookstores would ask to carry BAD, Lewis said--"they found it a traffic-builder." Even now, the Harvard Square Paperback Book-smith sells over 600 each week...
...myself this fall," Nixon would tell college audiences. "The Electoral College." A few were execrable. "It's one thing to give 'em hell," he said after Hubert Humphrey had made a well-publicized visit to Harry Truman. "It's another to give them Hubert." A new paperback, The Wit & Humor of Richard Nixon is necessarily brief (128 pages), has more than the usual amount of white space and includes Nixon's entire acceptance speech at Miami Beach, which contained not a scintilla...
...Daedalus issue, a hardcover volume comes out in a series by Houghton Mifflin known as the "Daedalus library." Authors of the original Daedalus papers have the oportunity to revise their work for a second edition. Finally, six months later, Beacon Press reprints the hardcover Houghton-Mifflin work as a paperback. The cycle from paper binding to paper binding to paper binding to paper binding emphasizes the need for long wear. For this quarterly, the back issues matter as much as the current ones...
Among more blatantly commercial novels, there are a couple of noteworthy categories. One is already known in the trade as Rosemary's Babies, since Ira Levin's bestseller (4,400,000 sales in paperback alone) has clearly inspired others to deal with the devil. Among them: The Mephisto Waltz by Fred Mustard Stewart (a pianist kills and inhabits the body of a long-fingered friend), and Don't Rely on Gemini by Vin Packer (the Corsican brothers in outer space). The last author is pseudonymous, but he has to come from Green...