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<text id=89TT1126>
<title>
May 01, 1989: Business Notes:Publishing
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 01, 1989 Abortion
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 59
Business Notes
PUBLISHING
This Chapter Paid for by . . .
</hdr><body>
<p> That is a good book which is opened with expectation and
closed with profit," wrote American educator Bronson Alcott.
Whittle Communications couldn't agree more. The Knoxville-based
company plans to publish a series of books that will contain a
radically new profit-making device: advertising. While
paperbacks have sometimes been sprinkled with ads, such come-ons
have almost never appeared between hard covers.
</p>
<p> The books, constituting a series called The Larger Agenda,
will be business-oriented analyses of 100 or so pages, written
by such authors as David Halberstam, John Kenneth Galbraith and
George Gilder for fees of about $60,000. Each book will be
initially distributed free to some 150,000 opinion leaders,
including executives and politicians, and later sold in
bookstores. The advertising income will finance the giveaways
and help keep the retail price of the books relatively low,
while still ensuring a healthy profit margin for Whittle, which
is 50% owned by the Time Inc. Magazine Co., the publisher of
TIME.
</p>
<p> Will Whittle start a trend? Not everywhere. Declares Roger
Straus, chief executive of the Farrar, Straus & Giroux
publishing house: "We would certainly not condone the use of
advertising in our books." Thus the prospect of Joe Isuzu
popping up in Pride and Prejudice is not quite at hand.
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