Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little further out of the Square on Brattle St., the Paperback booksmith sells largely the same assortment as Harvard Bookstore. The decor is more in the '60s style and the atmosphere is a little less intense, and as a bonus, you can usually find more weirdos browsing there than anywhere else in town. Again, the prices are whatever is printed on the cover, so don't come looking for any sensational bargains. You're sure to find any and all popsychology books, plus the Rolling Stones-'60s revival volume you've been looking for so long, so spend away...
...Malcolm Fewtrell, the Buckinghamshire detective superintendent assigned to the case, was the first to title his account of the crime The Train Robbers. The principal distinction of Piers Paul Read's similarly named book is that its author is also a record holder of sorts. In 1974 the paperback rights to Alive, his bestseller about the Andes plane crash victims who survived on protein obtained from their dead comrades, sold for $1.2 million. It was, at the time, the most ever known to be paid for a new book...
Warner Communications Inc., which will publish the paperback edition, paid him more than $2 million. Warner then sold the hard-cover rights to Grosset & Dunlap and the newspaper syndication rights to the Times Syndication Sales Corp., owned by the New York Times Co. Sixty periodicals−30 newspapers in the U.S. and 30 magazines and newspapers abroad−this week began reprinting excerpts. U.S. newspapers were limited to running 15,000 words, foreign papers 25,000−a mere 3% to 5% of Memoirs...
...from, but no less elusive than the equations that sprang from the mind of Einstein. One irony that might have amused Wilde is that for less than the price of two tickets at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theater, one can purchase all of his works in paperback, and enjoy them for a thousand and one nights...
Mary Gordon is frightened about the money that she is making-$300,000 from the paperback sale, for example. "I deserve something, but not all that," she muses. She will take a trip to Spain, teach a course on the religious novel at Amherst next year, finish a new book and "look into causes that need help" if that money piles up too high. First, like Isabel after her liberation, she will buy some clothes at Bloomingdale...