Word: textbook
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Among Hamilton's literary anecdotes is the story of the publishing house that missed landing The Catcher in the Rye when a vice president sent the manuscript to the textbook department because he had heard the story was about a preppie...
Agray and dreary rain was falling on Cambridge last night when the knock came at my door. Putting my textbook aside, I leapt to my feet and opened the door. "Yes?" I said...
After Dermody saved another key penalty shot, Karen Everling-- playing at defense for the injured Maggie Vaughan-- worked a textbook give-and-go with Lila Rifaat, and then dodged two defenders for a coast-to-coast goal...
...with Eisner at the helm, Disney has not lost its obsessive attention to detail. Eisner aims to impress Parisians with a fluent opening-day speech at Euro Disneyland four years from now, so he has dusted off a college French textbook and hired a French-speaking limousine driver through a want ad. Walking through Disneyland one Sunday afternoon, he peered at the plastic | leaves on the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, noting that they periodically wear out and need to be replaced leaf by leaf at a cost of $500,000. As his family strolled the park...
Hachette joins a fast-growing list of foreign publishers operating in the U.S. Just last February, Britain's Pearson paid $283 million to take over Addison-Wesley, a Massachusetts-based textbook maker. As the buyouts continue, U.S. publishing may become increasingly like its European counterpart, an industry that is dominated by a few behemoths...