Word: paperback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, Schoenman is working to spread the findings of the tribunal (neatly packed in a paperback book). He will return to England as soon as he can retrieve his United States passport which was confiscated by the Federal government after he took a trip to North Vietnam...
...Warren Center plans a similar revision every five years, to prevent a repetition of this massive task. Tentative plans also call for a paperback supplement every year...
Simplicity came three years ago with the introduction of the tape cartridge. The cartridge is a plastic case somewhat smaller than a paperback book. It contains a continuous loop of tape that automatically starts rolling when the cartridge is inserted in a slot on the playback machine; thus the user never touches the tape itself...
British Author Hunter Davies recently sold the U.S. publishing rights to his forthcoming biography The Beatles to McGraw-Hill for $150,000. Harold Robbins gets $500,000 in advance for every novel he dictates. Kathleen Winsor (Forever Amber) got $500,000 from New American Library for the paperback rights to her 1965 slow-selling novel Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West. Norman Mailer's contract with the same publisher guarantees him $450,000 apiece for his next two novels-plus a possible bonus...
Today's agent just loves those royalty statements from book publishers. But he also exploits a growing variety of other outlets for his client. Given a hot property and an Air Travel card, he will busy himself selling subsidiary rights to the movies, TV, paperback houses, foreign publishers and serialization syndicates-to say nothing of arranging for new assignments from publishers and setting up lecture tours...