Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only book to appear on this subject is ???ckie paperback, The Killing of Sharon Tate. It is a calculated exploitational work of popular culture, complete with pseudo-sociology, gore, glamour and inexplicit sex. As escapist reading however, it isn't a hell...
...publishers, American Heritage Publishing Co. and Houghton Mifflin Co., expect to move another 610,000 copies this year. Last week, capping one of the most successful book promotions in history, they sold the paperback rights to Dell Publishing Co. for $750,000, an exceptionally large soft-cover advance. The paperback edition will cost 75? and contain 55,000 words, compared with 155,000 in the hardcover dictionary, which sells for $7.95 in plain covers and $12.50 in deluxe binding...
Houghton Mifflin: $6.95 hardbound, $3.95 paperback...
...prose." His own book came hard. Separating words from rhythm, he says, was like "putting on a wooden overcoat." Dickey worked at it on and off for seven years. Though he has doubts about writing another, financially he can have no regrets. Book clubs, movie and paperback contracts already assure him of something like half a million dollars. At that, Deliverance is only one of four Dickey books that will be published in 1970. They include a new volume of poems, a journal and a series of self-interviews...
...recent years, a number of books by black authors have swiftly become permanent bestsellers in paperback. Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and the Autobiography of Malcolm X have all sold more than a million copies. By contrast, Richard Wright's Native Son, America's first big bestselling black novel, has taken 20 years to reach the same level-almost 40% of that came within the past three years...