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...interview Burack says very little that isn't in the Handbook. And he doesn't have to. "It's all in the book," he says, waving around the little blue paperback like a fundamentalist minister displaying his Bible. The bulk of the book is an 85-page series of lists of basic prescription drugs--what they do and how much they cost--with comparative prices of brand name drugs and their generic equivalents...
...contention. Phase one of the controversy, the author's public clash with the Kennedy family, has given way to dispute over Manchester's accuracy on several substantive points. Last week Manchester's forthcoming $10, 710-page work came under serious challenge from a $1, 128-page paperback titled The Truth about the Assassination...
Before an author's works are reprinted in anything but paperback, he is usually dead, or his books have come to be considered classics-or both. John Earth, 36, is alive, and none of his books have yet reached the classical shelf. He has written four novels-The Floating Opera, End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy. The first three together sold fewer than 8,000 copies. Goat-Boy, the only one that can be called a popular success, sold about 50,000 and showed up briefly on the bestseller lists. Despite this inconclusive...
...appeal. Harvard Book Store and the Paperback Bookfinder report over a hundred copies of the Peking Press edition of the Chairman's works have sold out within three days...
...company that publishes the Los Angeles Times to acquire a Manhattan-based magazine. But for the past six years, the Times Mirror has gone on a shopping spree, snatching up publishing companies right and left. Today, the Times Mirror is one of the nation's largest publishers of paperback books; it also puts out Bibles and dictionaries, art and medical books, airline flight manuals, slide rules and even service-station road maps. It publishes the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun and Evening Telegram and, south of Los Angeles, the Orange Coast Daily Pilot. According to Times Mirror President Albert Casey...