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Don't you think that's the case...?

With a lot of books.

If a person really likes a book, they're going to go out and buy the hardcover.

Not only that. If you've got the money, to read these great big books in paperback is a terrible and eye straining chore.

You can't handle the book.

The book's too thick and the type's too small. When you think what you pay to go see a movie these days or for a dinner, if you've got the money, you can afford to pay for a regular book.

Jim Michener, besides being a wonderful practitioner, is a man who listens to editors very closely.... Now he and Albert Erskine get along absolutely wonderfully. When Jim finishes a book, he and Albert go through every page together; and he's very open to suggestions. Any good suggestion that Albert makes, Jim Michener embraces.

An ideal author.

Oh, wonderful.