Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simon and Schuster printed a first edition of 10,000 copies of My Country and gave Author Davenport a $1,000 advance. The publishers apparently believed, with some reason, that My Country was likely to become the John Brown's Body...
...COUNTRY-Russell W. Davenport - Simon and Schuster...
...wholesale booksellers, branched out through Woolworth and other chain stores, aiming at some 7,500 distributors. Pocket Books Inc. (25?) with 70,000 outlets through news dealers, last week sold its 100,000,000th Pocket Book, while paying out its first $1,000,000 in royalties. Simon & Schuster Inc. made publishing history one year ago by printing, simultaneously, two versions of Wendell Willkie's One World. The $1 "cigar store" version (1,000,000) outsold the $2 version 4-to-1. This year the $1 edition of Bob Hope's I Never Left Home outsold the $2 book...
...Battle Begins. As a preliminary move, Marshall Field hired bookwise Freeman Lewis away from Doubleday, Doran as a "consultant." After long, secret conferences with Pocket Books and with Simon & Schuster (whose officials own 49% of Pocket Books), Publisher Field turned a covetous eye toward Grosset & Dunlap. He was just too late...
...Titans. Huge, sales-minded Doubleday, Doran, with its stable of reprint subsidiaries, appeared unruffled by all the excitement; Bennett Cerf's new combine watched Publisher Field narrowly. Mr. Field, admitting that "it will be entirely new to me [but] very interesting," continued to confer determinedly with an attentive Simon & Schuster. By week's end Wall Street money, betting on a first-class postwar fight, was busily calling on all the parties concerned, hoping to invest in a winner...