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...Atlas who hopes to push World to a top place in the reprint business is small, owlish, President Benjamin D. Zevin, 44. A New Yorker and ex-advertising man, Ben Zevin got into the book business by marriage, into mass distribution of reprints by pondering on old jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upstart Printer | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...other publishers were forced to drop them. One bit of trade gossip: World published Gypsy Rose Lee's G-String Murder on paper alloted for Bibles. This year World sold 13,000,000 volumes, grossed $6,350,000 to become one of the nation's biggest reprint houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upstart Printer | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Forward to Originals. Now in the reprint business "to stay," Ben Zevin plans a full-scale invasion of the "original" field next year (sample: a life of Bing Crosby, by his brother Ted; F.D.R. Speaks, edited by Ben Zevin). Most ambitious project, scheduled for 1947: a 25-lb. folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers, No. 1 U.S. book designer, to sell for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upstart Printer | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Harper, Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club, Scribner and Little, Brown, who ganged up to keep Field from buying the big reprint house of Grosset & Dunlap, have ganged up again-this time with giant Curtis Publishing Co.-to put out 25? paper-back Bantam Books in opposition to Field's Pocket Books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All That Money Can Buy | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...reprint rights (it now has contracts with "some 40" periodicals), Reader's Digest pays as little as $1,200 a year (to the New Republic), as much as $50,000 (to Crowell-Collier and Curtis Publishing Cos.). Authors who get reprinted are paid $150 per Digest page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dig You Later | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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