Word: reprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three sides of the room, overflow on the mammoth desk in the middle, and encumber every available chair with piles of envelopes. At 68, Wolfson can still scramble happily through the debris to look for a book or climb perilously on laden chairs in search of an obscure reprint from the Harvard Theological Review. After a lifetime of research he is considered today the outstanding Judaic scholar in the United States...
...fact that the essay tackles basic issues is reflected in the number of reprint requests we receive. "Employee Suggestions" (Aug. 16) drew such requests from large and small companies across the country and from three Government agencies. Other favorites in the reprint sweepstakes were "Public Relations" (May 10), "Business & the Colleges" (Jan. 18, 1954), and "Death of the Salesmen" (Jan. 25, 1954). Of the last, one salesman remarked that he had had this essay so drummed into him at meetings and conventions that he knew it by heart...
...began to phone the paper. They pointed out that an almost identical story about an unnamed woman had appeared in the August issue of Reader's Digest. Two days later Caen printed a brief apology for the slip, and sent the magazine a check for $20 to cover reprint rights on the story-the same sum Caen has often been paid for an item by the Digest...
have been sold annually, many of them to people who had seldom bought a hardcover book. Quickie publishers went into the business with the plain intention of out-trashing the trashiest. As business boomed, prices for reprint rights were bid to extravagant heights: $20,000 for a novel became a commonplace. Some hardcover publishers accepted manuscripts that they would ordinarily have rejected, if they could be sure of a profitable resale to a paperback firm...
...forgiven her for it) decide to start life anew together-"a boy and girl, simple, delighting each other, happy under cloudless skies." To keep the clouds away indefinitely they have-from Anneke's mining operations-a handsome financial profit. And so, after magazine rights, bookstore orders and reprint contracts, does durable Clarence Budington Kelland...