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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...
...publishers are paying more, they are also demanding more for their money. The major houses today have both hardcover and paperback imprints. To increase their chances of making a profit, they often insist, with authors ranging from Paul Kennedy to Stephen King, on acquiring the right to print properties in both forms. As another type of economic protection, book companies are taking advantage of their growing international reach by more often asking for foreign rights to a book...
...novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities (hard-cover copies sold: 750,000), rival publishing houses were rumored to be making offers of $15 million or more for his next book. Farrar, Straus, which had total revenues of only about $30 million last year, managed to assemble a deal with paperback publisher Bantam Books that paid Wolfe an estimated $5 million to $7 million. Says Roger Straus III, the publishing house's managing director: "It's a terrific strain on us. It's like a Monopoly game out there, and everybody has play money, but we're buying Park Place with...
...authors are looking forward to the huge 1990 census, with its treasure trove of information. Updated data from that survey should begin to appear in the 1991 edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from the volume, which costs $32 hardbound and $26 in paperback, the statisticians can probably find it -- as they did when an Australian wanted to know how much yogurt Americans consume. Answer: an average of 4.6 lbs. per person in 1987, a nearly sixfold increase since...