Moreover, half of their sales are of hardcover titles.

During his 20-year tenure, Rick has contributed to Consumer Guide's new-car evaluation program, written several online articles, and edited numerous hardcover titles covering the automotive spectrum.

"And maybe 60 of the 65 to 70 adult hardcover titles we publish a year will sell largely if not entirely in independent bookstores."

The full hardcover title is Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth & The Frame of Time.

Overlook does about 45 new hardcover titles a year and about 45 new trade paperbacks and has 18 employees.

And Mr. Clancy's "Cardinal of the Kremlin," the biggest-selling hardcover title of 1988, was published last July.

When MCA Inc. bought G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1975, the house was publishing more than 225 hardcover titles a year.

A recent book contract fetched an advance of about $19 million for each hardcover title.

Widespread markdowns on best sellers, tens of thousands of other hardcover titles and even paperbacks delighted consumers and increased book sales.

The stories were collected in four hardcover titles named The Star Trek Reader 1,2,3 and 4 in 1976 and 1977.