Word: paperback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Martin's Press is determined to show the veracity of the old chestnut about why people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The publisher is rushing out 500,000 copies of an "instant" paperback book, Glass Houses: Shocking Profiles of Congressional Sex Scandals and Other Unofficial Misconduct by attorney Stanley Hilton and psychologist Anne-Renee Testa, due in stores by Election Day. The book's mission: to expose the hidden lives of some of those who will be judging President CLINTON. The book will review the ethical problems of more than 50 Senators and Congressional Representatives...
Many parents acquire their first books even before the baby is born; What to Expect When You're Expecting (Workman) is a perennial favorite. Luckily, many parenting books are in inexpensive paperback editions; after all, kids rapidly outgrow such books, just as they outgrow clothes...
Next semester, if you decide to take a class featuring some of the finest novels written in the 20th century, you may find yourself selecting from a whole new breed of pricey paperbacks. Random House has just started publishing quality paperback versions of selections from its list of the 100 best novels written since the turn of the century, a list that has provoked widespread criticism, debate and, among the more media-savvy, a halfhearted shrug of the shoulders at the lengths to which some publishers will go to drum up a little business...
This sort of nitpicking, I'm sure, pleases Evans immensely. Now that titles like The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington are suddenly floating around the airwaves, making their way into circles of conversation and, no doubt, appearing in paperback at The Coop, Random House stands to profit. Indeed, the company plans to reissue 10 more novels from the list in the coming year. But is this dose of unabashed consumerism enough to make us want to sneer at the entire project? Not really. The truth is, Americans aren't exactly eating up literary fiction these days. If it takes...
...succeeded financially too. In August, when the list first appeared, Ulysses, Brave New World, Lolita and The Great Gatsby were all among the top 10 paperback bestsellers on Amazon.com, and the new paperbacks, with their admittedly attractive covers and layout, should bring in a handsome profit. Thought I expected the list to increase the popularity of the books for a short while, I find it remarkable that the public is quite so impressionable to a media stunt. As for myself, at least I know that only I can choose the books that I like, and that Harry Evans...