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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take Joni Evans, publisher of adult trade books at Random House. Two years ago, when she worked in a top editing job at rival Simon & Schuster, Evans was so determined to keep author Mario Puzo in her literary camp that she offered him a $3 million advance for his next book, sight unseen. A competitor outbid her by $1 million, so she matched the offer. "When I have to have it, I have to have it," she explains. The Godfather author, who jumped to Random House when Evans moved there in late 1987, is expected to deliver his pricey manuscript...
...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...
September 28: The gridders top UMass, 10-3, making Restic Harvard's winningest football coach with 79 career wins...
March 18-19: The icemen top Michigan St., 6-5, 3-3, to advance to the NCAA Final Four...
February 24-25: The cagers top Yale, 80-72, to enter a three-way tie the Ivy League lead. They follow with a win over Brown...