16 Jun
1998
16 Jun
'98
6:54 p.m.
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_