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Rick Finnegan, night manager at Paperback Booksmith on Brattle St., said, however, that the magazine "hasn't sold as we expected it to." Only 12 copies are gone from the store's shipment of 95, he said...
Mediagate may have some trouble equalling lastyear's USA Today parody sales, which grossed $2million according to Mirsky and was described byCohen as "one of our most successful projects."Last year's newspaper format was quite differentfrom Mediagate, a 260-page paperback...
...look at your fellow prisoners next time you are stranded at O'Hare International Airport, waiting in numb misery for Groundloop Airlines to postpone your red-eye to Washington National. At least half the frequent sufferers -- blue-suited business plodders of both sexes -- will carry a megatech spy paperback. Not a detective story or a gothic bodice ripper but a 500-page thunderation about missile subs, perhaps, or rocket attacks on space stations...
...best place to look for most of J.G. Ballard's 20-odd books is still in the paperback racks displaying science fiction, somewhere between Asimov and Bradbury. But the popular success of Ballard's Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel about an English boy's coming of age in Shanghai during the World War II Japanese occupation, was followed last year by Steven Spielberg's acclaimed screen adaptation. Thanks to this double-barreled triumph, Ballard has been transformed from a well-kept cult secret into something resembling a household name, with the luxury and burden of knowing that...
Last week, less than three months after the Man of the Year issue appeared on newsstands, Mikhail S. Gorbachev: An Intimate Biography (a TIME book; $4.50 paperback, $14.95 hard cover) was in bookstores across the country. The 281- page book, like the cover story, blends fascinating personal detail (the young Gorbachev, for example, attended church with his grandparents) with an analysis of Gorbachev's leadership and reforms...