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...record straight about the cost of the book. You say that at the end of buying the six installments, a reader will have shelled out a total of $18.94 for "what would have cost around $6.99 if it had been a normal, one-volume, mass-market paperback." The retail prices for new books from authors like King are as high as $27.95 in hard cover and $7.99 in paperback. To the millions of King fans who would pay $27.95 to read a new King novel, $18.94 is a reasonable price. The public has made this series a huge success...
...police spokesman denies the threat). 'When asked about it by a local TV reporter earlier this summer, Daley muttered, "It's just some guy trying to make a buck." "That's it exactly," says Gutkoska. By conversion time, he figures, he will have sold 5,000 shirts, which retail at $12 a pop. While he says police are buying them, they may well be doing so for their fathers; only about 7% of the city's current officers were on the force in 1968. Still, there are other takers. Says Gutkoska: "Had a couple of Secret Service guys in here...
...suggestion that the marriage was a sham is true. "They intend to make every effort to work out any issues between them, but in any event intend to remain the closest of friends, as they are today," said a spokesman. One possible translation: she won't have to pay retail...
Smooth-experience campers will soon have their own lavish shrine. On Sept. 13, R.E.I., a national retail cooperative that sold $448 million worth of outdoor equipment and clothing last year, will open the doors of its 80,000-sq.-ft. flagship store in Seattle. Spanning more than a two-acre city block, the store will feature a mountain-bike test trail encircling a 35-ft. man-made waterfall, and a "rain room" courtesy of Gore-Tex in which customers can try out foul-weather wear...
...Tasty, which Hamner said is about 10 by 15 feet with an eight-and-a-half-foot ceiling, is certainly "small-scale retail...