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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...
There is at least one sign that Holocaust may do better than NBC executives expect. Earlier this month, Bantam brought out Green's paperback novelization of his shooting script, expecting the book to take off after the show went on the air. Much to the publisher's surprise, the novel hit a nerve with the public from the moment it appeared on the racks. Holocaust has already gone through eight printings (1.25 million copies) and is climbing on best seller lists. Not even Alex Haley's Roots had so wide a circulation before the airing...
Harry N. Abrams Inc., the New York art-book publisher, bought the English-language rights, insured the risk by bringing in Bantam, the paperback house, as a partner and placed 40,000 copies on the market last fall under the simple title Gnomes. The book has sold 250,000 copies at a prepublication price of $14.95, and Abrams expects it to sell another 150,000 copies at the full price of $17.50. Abrams struck a crock of gold. Gnomes, says President Andrew Stewart, "will have a significant impact on our profits in 1978. We'd have a good year...