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Reading is an arcane art. Nobody but a man, his conscience and possibly his wife can ever know whether he has opened the books that line his shelves. But publishers are interested in sales, not consumption, and any market researcher can tell them who buys what, when and where. The...
Harvard Square can be either a wasteland or a garden of Eden for those in search of fashion. Those who decide what to put out on the shelves for sale maintain they couldn't care less what Paris decrees, and a continuity prevails here from season to season. Nevertheless, this...
In times of economic vigor, companies tend to increase their inventories, expecting even greater sales ahead and hoping to avoid possible increases in the cost of materials. The U.S. economy is certainly healthy-but the supplies on the nation's shelves have not been building up in their usual...
If the U.S. Food and Drug Ad ministration has its way, many a bottle is going to disappear from drugstore and medicine-cabinet shelves in the next year or so. A few have been knocked off recently, but more will go now that FDA is invoking the power to reassess...
The Commission and other agencies of the Common-wealth have concentrated their efforts, time, and public funds on books like Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer. For example, it was only recently that the Boston Public Library was permitted to place even such a book as Theodore Dreiser's An...