Word: paperback
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...several publications before coming to TIME in 1987, and has written a book about Enrique Camarena Salazar, the U.S. DEA agent kidnapped and murdered by Mexican drug traffickers and corrupt officials. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win was a best seller in paperback earlier this year. The book was turned into the NBC mini-series Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, which won an Emmy as the best mini-series...
Murdoch executives are still seeking to cross-fertilize among the properties. It has been nice to be able to feature the Fox network's hit The Simpsons in TV Guide and to make Fox's crime show America's Most Wanted the subject of a paperback from Murdoch's HarperCollins publishing house. It surely helped to feature HarperCollins author Bernie Siegel on the cover of Murdoch's magazine New York in June 1989, days before publication of his Peace, Love & Healing. But the company wants to develop more systematic and profitable "synergies...
...caught in a profit squeeze like many other U.S. publishers, grossing out readers could mean netting a big return on Ellis' advance, estimated at $300,000. Yet American Psycho could backfire on the accountants. Penguin turned down the chance to publish the paperback edition. Executive editor Nan Graham is relatively diplomatic: "I had to read for an hour and a half before getting to the bad stuff. I was bored and annoyed." Is a new paperback deal being negotiated elsewhere? The terse reply from S&S's subsidiary-rights department: "We're working on it. No takers. No comment...
...with several potent concoctions. A movie adaptation of her best-selling snort-and-chortle novel, Postcards from the Edge, has opened big. It features Fisher's screenplay directed by Mike Nichols, with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as the star-worn daughter and mother. There is also a new paperback edition of her novel to add to the media jet stream. And Fisher's lovelorn modern romance, Surrender the Pink, has just been published...
Possible titles for the paperback include A Harvard Education for $7.95 and A Harvard Education in a Book,Beckerman said...