Word: reprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free public library. Popular recordings were stacked in bins, and hardly anybody thought to dignify them by collecting them in albums. Nowadays, pop albums are almost as common as paperback novels. And more and more, they are packaged with the same kind of half-dressed jacket heroines that the reprint publishers have long used to sell paperbacks...
...Hard-cover reprint...
PAPERBACK book publishers are astonished at the record-breaking sales of Signet's 75? reprint of James Jones's From Here to Eternity, especially since many of them thought the price too high. When the first printing of 500,000 copies sold out in six days, Signet ordered a second edition of 300,000 copies, sold it almost as fast. Signet now expects to sell more than 1,000,000 copies by the end of the first month...
Every week TIME receives dozens of requests for permission to reprint articles or to quote from them. One of the most unusual came recently from Dr. Lenox D. Baker, of the Duke University School of Medicine. He wanted permission to reproduce the cover picture of Oilman Alfred Jacobsen, president of Amerada Petroleum Corp. (Dec. i). Dr. Baker also wanted permission to quote the cover caption in a paper on Marie-Strumpell arthritis that he was to deliver at a meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic
Spread the Word. In St. Joseph, Mo., a woman phoned the News-Press to ask if it would reprint the story about her divorce because "there's a fellow I think wants a date with me ... He must have missed the first notice." Invitation Accepted. In Milwaukee, citizens who were invited to help themselves to the kindling wood left over from the dismantling of Borchert Field also carried off the main gate, 118 benches, two tool sheds, $105 worth of tools...