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...Coop's first floor hardcover department is uninspiring, although not for a lack of Bibles (for some strange reason the Coop has a huge scripture section). And first floor browsers are periodically accosted by encyclopedia salespeople who always seem to be raffling off something. The second floor paperback section is slightly better, but the metal turnstiles ominously guarding every entrance never let you forget the Coop's impersonal approach to bookselling...
Down the block, Cambridge Booksmith (nee Paperback Booksmith), at 25 Brattle St., is the exact opposite of the Coop. Understated and decidedly unglitzy, the Booksmith looks more like a book warehouse. But don't be fooled--its unpretentious paperback offerings are inexpensive and throrough, and bear the mark of a well-read staff...
...must be a potential class action on behalf of writers, charging Turow with monopolistic practices over the pool of money available for new books. Presumed Innocent racked up several records. Farrar, Straus & Giroux paid Turow $200,000, the most the publisher had ever advanced for a first novel. A paperback sale of $3 million followed, another first-novel first. Then came a million dollars more from Hollywood, and royalties from the 18 foreign-language editions of the novel are still rolling in. Neither Turow nor FS&G will disclose the financial arrangements surrounding The Burden of Proof; what is known...
...scores of designers represented in the show, none has been able to feed the voracious contemporary appetite for information faster and better than Richard Saul Wurman. His paperback Access Guides -- to 13 different cities (1981-89) as well as baseball (1984) and Wall Street (1989) -- brim to overflowing with a sense of fun and curiosity about the world, intermingling maps, drawings, data and a quirky sensibility...
...hardcover, $9.95 paperback...