Word: simonizers
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Given the remorseless nature of her writing, Rendell, 56, is surprisingly coy about her attempts to comprehend the workings of the criminal mind. "I do research," she says in crisp British tones. "But not in the conventional sense." She does acknowledge that her son Simon, 32, a social worker who has emigrated to Denver, "was a children's officer and has been rather a help with psychopaths and with case histories, especially of children in care." She disclaims firsthand acquaintance with crimes and sounds positively appalled when discussing readers who write in with suggestions they have concocted: "I am always...
...dispute over Rehnquist's qualifications remained bitter and partisan to the end, as relentless attacks were led by Kennedy and fellow Democrats Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Paul Simon of Illinois and Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware...
...question about it," says Valeri Cade, president of the audio-and- video publishing division of Simon & Schuster, "there is a big future for books on tape. We've doubled the number of accounts every six months, when we come out with a new list." Agrees Mitchell Deutsch, president of Warner Audio Publishing: "There is a mass market out there. I'm predicting that we will see a 50% to 100% growth in the next five years. It is a fabulous, exciting new development in publishing...
What they used to hear was a single voice lifting the words from the page, and many novels and short stories are still recorded plain, unadorned by music or echo chambers. But the tape of Stephen King's The Mist is enhanced by what Simon & Schuster calls 3-D sound: voices are accompanied by rustling leaves, slithering tentacles, the flapping of prehistoric winds and the crawling of spiders as they descend on a small New England town. The latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok...
...that end, Random House routinely demands permission from writers "to license mechanical rights." Simon & Schuster, among other print publishers, offers a defined structure to its authors, based on percentage of retail cassette sales: 5% on the first 10,000 units sold, 6% on the next 5,000, 6.5% thereafter. Those figures are not frozen; tape publishing is about to make its own rules. Predicts Jane Friedman of Random House: "The issue today, ultimately, is that the publisher wants to retain all audio rights, but as in any contract, every point, every clause is up for negotiation. A publisher simply...