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Miss Craig Rice (Mrs. Lawrence Lipton) has authorized me by long-distance telephone from her home in Santa Monica to deny the statement in your issue of Jan. 28 that she receives $6,750 if a Craig Rice book sells 500,000 copies in a 25? reprint edition on the newsstands...
...reprint market, detectifiction may sell prodigiously, but the royalty is small: 1? a copy on most paperbound newsstand books (1½ after a book sells more than 150,000). Thus if a Craig Rice book sells 500,000 copies on the newsstands, she makes an additional...
...publishers of Pocket Books present the Oscars of the reprint business. They are small sterling silver kangaroos, and their name is Gertrude. If one of their author's books has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in Pocket Book form, he receives a Gertrude...
...reprint sales Craig Rice is a comparative newcomer. Her first Pocket Book reprint (Trial by Fury), put out only a little over two years ago, has sold over 550,000 copies. The second (Having Wonderful Crime) has sold over 300,000. It is a toss-up whether she or Agatha Christie will first have a little Gertrude in her home...
Some of the most provocative recent writing is contained in a 14-page preface by Novelist Thomas Mann to the reprint of six short novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Few 19th-Century novelists said as much in a whole lifework as did Fyodor Dostoevsky in his short novels. Few 20th-century critics could say, at book length, as much about Dostoevsky as Mann says in the introductory essay in which the great German brilliantly examines the great Russian, and, for the first time, movingly acknowledges his debt...