Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Survival Books. Zanuck and Brown have an author who is willing to try. They have hired Anne Edwards, 49, to write "a deep, rich and complex novel" from which the screenplay will be adapted (the novel will be published in paperback at the same time the movie comes out). Says Brown: "Bear in mind that this is not the kind of project where a screenwriter can just sit down and write 'fade in.' " Even so, the producers want an outline this fall and the finished novel within a year...
...smallest of these pluses. The average royalties on college textbooks bring the author a meager 14 per cent of net receipts, although each book has a different rate. This income is not based on list price, but rather on discount over-the-counter prices--many on second hand, paperback, and drastically reduced editions. Ezra Vogel, professor of Sociology, who lectures in Sociology 114, "Japanese Society" from two books he has written on social class structure in Japan, says that the ten cents the University of California Press sends him for every copy of his $2.95 book sold, amounts...
...occasional girl with rapier envy) turned to martial romance for a chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow. Quickly, one hopes. At his worst Sabatini is a hypnotic yarn spinner. At his best he is a semiserious novelist...
Mass UFOria. Bookstore browsers can testify that the FS imagination has been working overtime. Currently the best-read fiction science (more than 30 million paperback copies sold) is Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods? and its sequels. Von Däniken, a former Swiss hotelman and convicted embezzler with no formal scientific training, professes the notion that the species Homo sapiens was created when astronauts from outer space descended to earth about 10,000 years ago and copulated with apes. It was a kind of one-night stand. According to the author, the satiated aliens...
...likely by 1988. Some best-selling writers in this field are admitted amateurs. "I'm not a writer at all. I could hardly write a letter home," says Marabel Morgan, eyelashes aflutter. Nonetheless, her piously erotic Total Woman has reached 600,000 sales in hardcover, 3 million in paperback...