Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nonsecret: vitamin C, which was isolated in 1928. The vitamin-also called ascorbic acid-has never received its due, Dr. Pauling says, partly because the drug companies cannot make enough money out of it and partly because doctors generally prescribe doses just large enough to prevent scurvy. In a paperback, Vitamin C and the Common Cold (W.H. Freeman & Co.; $1.95), Pauling recommends a daily 250-to-10,000 milligrams to keep colds from being caught, plus a crash dosage of 500-milligram tablets to kill them once they're started. Initial response to his finding...
Sunday, "Love Story" headed the best-seller list for the 29th consecutive week, a new record. And yesterday, the largest single printing since the invention of moving type-4.5 million copies of "Love Story" in paperback-became available for public consumption...
Even so, the average porn paperback costs no more than 25? to produce. The publisher then sells it for about $1 to wholesalers like Cleveland's giant Sovereign News Co. The shortest end of the take goes to the authors-some of them teachers, housewives and journalists-who are lucky to clear $250 a book. Chicago's Loop now has about 20 "adult" bookstores, which also sell records, playing cards and other assorted forms of erotica; San Francisco has 60 stores, and Los Angeles...
Like much of Spark's writing, The Driver's Seat has some of the elements of a thriller, but there is no real suspense. In fact, the book is like the paperback Lise carries around with her, which she describes as "a whydunnit in q-sharp major." The reader knows that Lise is crazy from the moment she stalks out of a shop because the salesgirl has told her the preposterous garment she wants is "stain-resistant." The fact that she will be stabbed to death is announced portentously on page...
...team formerly studied the effects of LSD on human personality, described in their book The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966; Delta paperback...