Word: paperback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publishers are paying more, they are also demanding more for their money. The major houses today have both hardcover and paperback imprints. To increase their chances of making a profit, they often insist, with authors ranging from Paul Kennedy to Stephen King, on acquiring the right to print properties in both forms. As another type of economic protection, book companies are taking advantage of their growing international reach by more often asking for foreign rights to a book...
...novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities (hard-cover copies sold: 750,000), rival publishing houses were rumored to be making offers of $15 million or more for his next book. Farrar, Straus, which had total revenues of only about $30 million last year, managed to assemble a deal with paperback publisher Bantam Books that paid Wolfe an estimated $5 million to $7 million. Says Roger Straus III, the publishing house's managing director: "It's a terrific strain on us. It's like a Monopoly game out there, and everybody has play money, but we're buying Park Place with...
...authors are looking forward to the huge 1990 census, with its treasure trove of information. Updated data from that survey should begin to appear in the 1991 edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from the volume, which costs $32 hardbound and $26 in paperback, the statisticians can probably find it -- as they did when an Australian wanted to know how much yogurt Americans consume. Answer: an average of 4.6 lbs. per person in 1987, a nearly sixfold increase since...
...only Bellow could have staged a literary coup by sneaking a brilliant work into a 100-page paperback. Instead, it looks as if Bellow should have followed the publishers' advice and left this one on his word processor...
This new company is, by any measure, very big news. If the shareholders of the two combining companies and the appropriate regulatory agencies approve, Time Warner Inc. will consist of an extraordinary range of enterprises -- moviemaking, records, hardcover and paperback books, television and cable programming, cable systems and of course magazine publishing. You are undoubtedly already familiar with many of these businesses and their products...