Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor Diana Trilling! Paperback rights for her new book brought only $125,000. The publishing industry must be suffering from hard times indeed. Invested in a money-market fund, that sum will only net her a yearly income of around $17,000, without her having to lift a finger. Poor woman! How will she make ends meet...
...Book-of-the-Month Club is taking the unprecedented step of offering The Fate of the Earth to its 1.2 million members at minimal cost ($2.25 rather than the retail $11.95). After feverish bidding, paperback rights went to Avon for $375,000, and the book has already been snatched up by at least ten foreign publishers...
Herb Margolis, 56, strolled into a Los Angeles bookstore 15 months ago, flipped to the index page of Nice Girls Do, the hot-selling sex manual, and went into shock. Reason: he claims that the book, which has sold 183,000 hardcover copies and is now on the paperback bestseller lists, is half his-the result of collaboration in and out of bed with Author Irene Kassorla during a passionate romance that cooled in June 1978. Kassorla, a fiftyish Bel Air psychologist, admits the affair but denies working with Margolis. Says Margolis plaintively: "She wanted us to become the Masters...
...sidewalks along the city's larger streets are lined with small roadside enterprises. Vendors display fruits, vegetables, small paperback booklets and trinkets. Old women and men sell popsicles and tea to pedestrians. Three young women stand in an outdoor restaurant, preparing fried bread and dumplings. The restaurant, like all other privately owned enterprises is relatively new: it has not been long since the Chinese government prohibited all private businesses. Now, however, private enterprises are encouraged. These small businesses are viewed as a source of employment for the millions of Chinese who are unemployed while waiting for the government to "distribute...
Columbia Records' Pac-Man Fever (sample lyric: "I've got Pac-Man fever/ I'm goin' out of my mind") was No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 last week. Book publishers are weighing in with works like Signet's 128-page paperback guide, Mastering Pac-Man, which has put in an appearance on the New York Times bestseller list, and Pocket Books' How to Win at Pac-Man. Meanwhile, Bally last week introduced the first model of a Pac-Man pinball machine. The company hopes it will revive interest in pinballs, which...