Unusual find

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Tue Jun 16 22:54:01 1998

Francois wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I just found a book Titled Odyssey Pepsi to Apple by John Sculley. It is the
> advance copy from uncorrected manuscript.
> How often do anyone of you run into that kind of print?
> Here is what it says on the cover:
> This is an advance copy from uncorrected manuscript. The regular edition
> will be hardcover. Reviewers are reminded that changes may be made in this
> manuscript copy before books are printed. If any material from the book is
> to be quoted in a review, the quotation should be checked against the final
> bound book.
> A final chapter, The Second Renaissance, is not included in this reading
> copy. It will appear in the printed book.
>
> Harper & Row, Publishers, New York.

It's called a trade paperback, originally the way a book was
distributed "to the trade" without the expensive hard covers.
Before the format had its own chart on the bestseller lists, it
was the way that books were released for review before official
publication, to distributors, buyers for chain bookstores,
magazine reviewers etc. Actually, I get 3-4 such yearly from
Del Rey for review a couple of months before the hardcovers come
out -- hey, I'm a book reviewer, not a _critic_, I can read.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Tue Jun 16 1998 - 22:54:01 BST

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