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...interest book trade has been transformed by at . least 16 major acquisitions, from the 1986 purchase of Doubleday by West Germany's Bertelsmann (price: $500 million) to last year's takeover of Macmillan by British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell ($2.7 billion). As early as 1987, Warner Books chairman William Sarnoff quipped at the booksellers' convention in Washington that soon "we'll all just meet at the office of the lone remaining publisher." At this point, according to James Milliot, editor of the industry newsletter BP Report, the top six publishing houses reap 60% of all adult-book revenues, in contrast...
...eyes have it. Reading questions aloud is boring, even on C-SPAN. None of the courtroom wizards on L.A. Law use crib sheets. Explains Dorothy Sarnoff, a corporate-image adviser: "When you read, we don't see the eyes, so we don't know what you're feeling...
Word of the Hunts' action came as a welcome surprise to Wall Street. Said Paul Sarnoff, an analyst at Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "I didn't think they would ever sell all that silver." Investors were happy to see that the Hunts have largely left the silver scene. The price of the commodity jumped more than 5% after the sell-off became known and closed the week at $6.32 an ounce...
...December, he traveled to New Jersey to lecture before Sun Oil executives on his book. Richard S. Rusenbloom, Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and Aberhathy's member from the carry, said I saw him on the youth of December He talked about work we would do together in January...
...television movie of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song demonstrated, the networks will take the occasional chance. Whatever else may have been wrong with The Executioner's Song, and there was plenty, it did not suffer from a failure of nerve. Did General Sarnoff ever believe his network would show a psycho jailbird decking a girlfriend when she refused to have anal intercourse? The ultimate point of watching Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones) get ready to face the firing squad may have been right at the end of the rifle barrels, but it would be nice...