“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Prentice knows that the hardcovers will continue to do well over the years. They also understand that the general market paperbacks do not last—that is, they come apart. The people who really enjoy these books will buy Prentice editions as their own wear out, using hardcovers to make notations, etc.

(I asked Jane to hold this session so that we could get information on two questions: 1. The sales of her books, both hardcover and paperback. 2. Her status concerning her symptoms.)

It will take longer then for the general public than it did, for example, with The Seth Material hardcover, for several reasons.

As you mentioned, you are outside, not fitting into any acceptable mold. The general public, moreover, in those terms does not know how to respond. Many, picking up those paperbacks, do so on impulse, and are unfamiliar with any such books. They cannot laugh the matter off. The books require personal questioning. Some people are frightened. They are also intrigued. But many put off spending more money, say, for a hardcover book, because this would involve a commitment involving the ideas themselves.

[...] As it is, Prentice-Hall is now applying earnings from the paperback Politics against the hardcover losses—a method Tam says is common in the trade, but which I think is ethically dishonest, to say the least. They did the same thing with Adventures; in this case, that action wiped the board clean for the hardcover Adventures, and even showed a small profit from the paperback sales. [...] Instead of charging hardcover losses against taxes as a business expense, say, they charge the author for them; this means they do not have to pay the author any royalties on paperback sales, for at least several years. [...]

[...] The books are well established, and there will be an acceleration even with the hardcover Seth Speaks as the paperback is assimilated. [...]

[...] His first hardcover was out, and instead of changing the situation for the better he was faced with a job after writing full time.

The Seth Material hardcover did not financially change the situation that much, but his classes began to bring in money. [...]

[...] (To make the record complete, it should be noted that Jane’s first book on psychic phenomena was How to Develop Your ESP Power. It was published in hardcover and paperback editions in 1966 and 1974, respectively, by Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10016. [...]

[...] There seems to be a chance also of trying to get Prentice-Hall to publish the three Seven books in simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback editions, if we interpret the letter correctly. [...]

[...] Those paperback sales were latent, so to speak, when the hardcover books were sold. [...]

[...] [The paperback in question is The Coming of Seth, originally published in hardcover as How to Develop Your ESP Power.]

[...] By now he’d taken two hardcover books from a bag, and given them to me. [...]

(Tonight John himself told Jane that the success of Personal Reality is “phenomenal,” meaning that it has sold close to 40,000 copies hardcover its first year out.)

For a number of reasons, hardcover books especially are much more expensive in Europe than they are in the United States. [...]

[...] Because he felt a responsibility to the work, and because of another publication—a hardcover book—he consented to The Seth Material. [...]

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