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...trial sat, each with a white, paperbound printed copy of the indictment in his hand, some making notes, some staring out at the audience, some studying the court...
...Manila Hotel's north wing was burning. Two hundred yards across the river a concrete building was ablaze. Shells from our Long Toms whistled past. Below us machine guns sputtered. Through it all Captain Francis X. Shannon Jr. of Cincinnati sat in a chair and calmly read a paperbound book. I glanced at the title. It was Margery Wilson's Pocket Book of Etiquette...
...publishing revival of the early 1920s began with the appearance of the Modern Library and other modestly priced reprints. Today, in addition to the immense success of paperbound reprints, paper rationing has accustomed readers to cheaper books, with thinner paper, smaller type, narrower margins. And keen competition in the cheap-book field has been further assured this year by Multimillionaire Marshall Field's purchase of Simon & Schuster (including a 49% interest in Pocket Books), countered by the purchase of the old reprint house of Grosset & Dunlap by a syndicate composed of Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club...
Walking through Manhattan's Grand Central Station several months ago, platinum-haired Publisher Marshall Field paused in a drugstore, riffled through a 25? paperbound book. It was love at first sight. The book's format, price and easy proximity to masses of people pleased Publisher Field, just as it had pleased millions of other Americans. Enamored as he now is of the word business (the Chicago Sun, New York City's PM, Cincinnati's radio station WSAI). Publisher Field decided to invade book publishing...
Some of the lowest-cost books in U.S. publishing history will roll off the presses next month for shipment directly to frontline soldiers and sailors. Armed Service Editions, sponsored by the Council on Books in Wartime, will be paperbound, two columns to a page, shaped to be carried in a coverall pocket, to be passed along or thrown away. Shipments of 1,500,000 are planned for June, 35,000,000 for the next year. Titles will include fiction and nonfiction, a few classics, nothing technical or heavy. Typical June selections: The Human Comedy; Tom Sawyer; The Forest...