The publisher has set a $700,000 minimum for bids on the paperback rights.
The $2.3 million paid for the paperback rights to "Love Signs" set an industry record.
Now the prospective sale of the paperback rights would appear less attractive.
Quietly, I cut my asking price in half and sold the paperback rights within the week.
The sale of its paperback rights had broken all records.
The paperback rights were sold for $1.8 million, a possible record for a first novel.
His advance for Carrie was $2,500, with paperback rights earning $400,000 at a later date.
Talk of best-seller lists and paperback rights was heard at every third table.
No one had bothered to sell the paperback rights before the book came out.
When the paperback rights to the book were suddenly sold for $410,000, he telephoned his mother.
