European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best seller fiction 1 four past Midnight by Stephen King last week 1 weeks on list 1 2 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon last week 2 weeks on list 5 3 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow last week 3 weeks on list 15 4 the women in his life by Barbara Taylor Bradford last week 4 weeks on list 7 5 spy sinker by Len Deighton last week 9 weeks on list 2 6 hocus pocus by Kurt Vonnegut first week on list 7 message from Nam by Danielle steel last week 5 weeks on list 14 8 the stand by Stephen King last week 6 weeks on list 20 9 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 7 weeks on list 31 10 the general in his labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez first week on list non fiction 1 Trump surviving at the top by Donald j. Trump with Charles Leerhsen last week 10 weeks on list 3 2 bootleggers boy by Barry Switzer with Bud Shrake last week 2 weeks on list 2 3 darkness visible by William Styron last week 1 weeks on list 3 4 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last week 4 weeks on list 8 5 the politics of Rich and poor by Kevin Phillips last week 7 weeks on list 8 6 every spy a Prince by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman last week 5 weeks on list 7 7 men at work by George f. Will last week 6 weeks on list 24 8 Dave Barry turns 40 by Dave Barry last week 9 weeks on list 17 9 barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyer last week 5 weeks on list 34 10 Tom Landry by Tom Landry with Gregg Lewis last week 3 weeks on list 5 paperback fiction 1 presumed innocent by Scott Turow weeks on list 43 2 silent partner by Jonathan Kellerman weeks on list 5 3 Clear and present danger by Tom Clancy weeks on list 10 4 the pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett weeks on list 9 5 counterattack by . Griffin weeks on list 3 6 the old silent by Martha Grimes weeks on list 3 7 the Joy Luck club by Amy Tan weeks on list 18 8 some can whistle by Larry Mcmurtry weeks on list 2 9 modern women by Ruth Harris weeks on list 3 10 Earth song by Catherine Coulter first week on list paperback non fiction 1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 44 2 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman weeks on list 6 3 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 361 4 i want to grow hair i want to grow up i want to go to Boise by Erma Bombeck weeks on list 4 5 when Rabbit howls by Truddie Chase weeks on list 16 6 a Brief history of time by Stephen hawking weeks on list 16 7 the Road from Coor Aln by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 2 8 its always something by Gilda Radner weeks on list 13 9 the bridesmaids by Judith Balaban Quine weeks on list 7 10 love Medicine and miracles by Bernie s. Siegel weeks on list 110 paperback miscellaneous 1 codependent no More by Melody Beattie weeks on list 107 2 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas by Rand Mcnally weeks on list 31 3 the to Factor fat Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle weeks on list 20 4 what to expect when you re expecting by Arlene Eisenberg Heidi Murkoff and Sandee e. Hathaway weeks on list 3 5 toxic parents by Susan Forward and Craig Buck first week on list compiled by the new York times stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 four past Midnight by Stephen King 2 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 3 message from Nam by Danielle steel 4 hammerheads by Dale Brown 5 the stand by Stephen King 6 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow 7 dragon by Clive Cussler 8 Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman 9 Star trek prime directive by Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevens 10 get shorty by Elmore Leonard non fiction 1 wealth without risk by Charles j. Givens 2 Dave Barry turns 40 by Dave Barry 3 men at work by George will 4 father son and co. By Thomas j. Watson or. And Peter Petre 5 peril and Promise by John Chancellor 6 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum 7 barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyer 8 whereas Waldo by Martin Handford 9 done to shoot its Only me by Bob Hope with Melville Shavelson 10 websters ninth new collegiate dictionary Index self published books hit it big when John Javna and Julie Bennett were discussing How to publish �?o50 simple things you can do to save the Earth a they considered offering it to a commercial Book company. A but we wanted it out in a hurry at an affordable Price so we decided to publish it ourselves a Javna said. The $4.95 Book published under the imprint of earthworks press was on the new York times Best seller list for 31 weeks 10 weeks As no. 1. Javna and Bennett Are not alone. Thanks to the proliferation of word processors and Home computers authors and aspiring authors across the nation Are writing editing designing and producing their own books then Selling them through local bookstores or via mail order. A that kind of publishing can Only get bigger As the number of commercial publishers dwindles a said Richard Marek editor at Large at Crown publishers. In the last year or so several books that were initially self published became Best Sellers. They include a life 101�?� by John Roger and Peter Mcwilliams a what color is your Parachute by Richard n. Bolles a leadership secrets of Attila the him by Wess Roberts and a the Book of questions by Gregory Stock. And one of the biggest Selling hard cover books of the 1980s, a the one minute manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson was self published before the authors sold it to William Morrow amp co. Unlike vanity publishing where authors pay commercial printers As much As $ 10,000 for the satisfaction of seeing their name on a Book self publishing usually costs less than half that amount. Moreover self published books do not carry the stigma of vanity press books which Are mostly shunned by booksellers reviewers and librarians. New novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez John Updike Ann Rice and Stephen King should make for brisk sales this fall but publishers and booksellers worry a recession could turn Many buyers into browsers. The Boom of the past decade May be the problem. Net sales in the United states jumped from $1.4 billion in 1982 to $3.4 billion in 1989 and some worry the Industry has become too big for its own Good. A in the past we were recession proof a said David Schwartz president of a Chain of six bookstores in the Milwaukee area. A but since our last recession in 1982 we be expanded our Book publishing beyond that Core population. We have More than doubled the buying Public and we have a lot of new people whose commitment to books is a lot More  still fiction looks Strong this fall with Alfred a. Knopf leading the Way. This is the publishing houses 75th anniversary and Marquez Updike Rice and Geoffrey Wolff All have books coming out. New writers Nicholas Shakespeare and Walter Kim May also attract favourable attention. Other new books expected to sell Well include t. Cora Hessan Boyless a East is East a Larry Mcmurtry so Buffalo girls a and fiction by Jean Auel . Coetzee Muriel spark and Nadine Gordimer. From wort reports