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...latching on to sexy manuscripts and spending huge amounts of money on ballyhoo. Thus Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, a vulgar chronicle of three female predators on the make in Hollywood, sold more than 350,000 hard-cover copies and 6,000,000 more in paperback. Helen Gurley Brown's guide for swingers, Sex and the Single Girl sold about 2,500,000 copies In each case Gais, assisted by his promotion department, a fetching blonde named Letty Cottin Pogrebin, spent more than $80,000 on advertising...
...going to bring out the hypocrisy and dishonesty with which birth control matters are handled in this state," Baird says. Among his exhibits will be a paperback book he claims was purchased at the Coop entitled The Handbook of Birth Control, published by the Harvard Medical Research Association. He also may show a Time magazine with a cascade of multi-colored contraceptive pills on the cover. "The Massachusetts laws specifically forbid discussing or illustrating birth control methods," says Baird, "and yet the law was broken without punishment until I came along...
...hippie scene. Her leading character undoubtedly was an adolescent in the '50s who thought that the Tennessee Waltz was George and swooned over Johnnie Ray before the author updated her hangups to the '60s. Nothing mishugah about that: Babyhip has already earned $100,-000 in movie and paperback deals...
Scientific boks now account for about 15 per cent of the Press's output, and Carroll does not plan to increase that portion. Neither does he have plans for publishing paperback books, an innovation seriously discussed at the Press for the past few years. The Press currently sells paperback rights to other publishers...
...AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1, New American Library. A lively blend of the best contemporary avant-garde fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism collected in a commendable effort to sell quality in quantity in the paperback market...