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Published as a 35? paperback, a $1 plastic-covered edition and a $3.95 hard cover, the Society translation, called Good News for Modern Man, is a straightforward rendering of the Greek text in precise, simplified language. Although designed primarily for readers who have learned English as a second language, Good News has been bought in bulk lots by universities, seminaries and church groups. Sales have wildly exceeded the modest expectations of the Society, which placed an initial print order of only...
Simplicity came three years ago with the introduction of the tape cartridge. The cartridge is a plastic case somewhat smaller than a paperback book. It contains a continuous loop of tape that automatically starts rolling when the cartridge is inserted in a slot on the playback machine; thus the user never touches the tape itself...
...next to you for a while." He: "Jane, forget that silly dish. Come and sit with me and tell me that all my fears are untrue." But neither utters a word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with an unlikely title, The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles, has just been published by Association Press, a Y.M.C.A. affiliate. Written by Clarence L. Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister who helped found Koinonia Farm, an integrated colony of whites and Negroes in Georgia, the book transposes the writings...
...Federal Grand Jury that indicted Dr. Benjamin Spock last month got him on the wrong conspiracy. "Conspiracy to encourage young men to violate the Selective Service Act?" Big deal. The real conspiracy involves his book--Baby and Child Care--the paperback manual that helped bring up nearly every one of today's young radicals and anti-war agitators...
...Alice Payne Hackett, an editor of the trade magazine Publisher's Weekly, gives a highly useful perspective on the long-range trends beyond the weekly ups and downs, and also includes such items as dictionaries and cookbooks, which the weekly compilations omit. The volume shows how the paperback and population explosions have altered the bestseller concept. A really warm item in 1904 was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber has sold 1,652,837 hard-cover copies since...