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aa NY 100-161445 "While most bookstores in the country refuse to stock the paperback, more than 125,000 copies have been sold at $1.95 each and the title has appeared on several best seller lists, "As contractual author, Hoffman received 77% per 7 cent of the royalties remaining after his lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, takes a 10 per cent cut. But as head of Pirate Editions Inc., formed after the book was rejected by numerous publishing houses. Hoffman is also the publisher and garners the publisher's six per cent share of the net gross, "Hoffman estimates that the book has earned him about $28,000 so far, of which he has only received $16,000 in actual payments from the distributor, Grove Press, Haber has so far gotten one check-for $1050, { i : ; + ~ 4 ! :] "The Lrony of two collaborators battling over credit for a book with a larcenous soul did not escape either Haber or Hoffman, "'It was a brute force rip-off,' Haber said. 'He was Abbie and it was his name that was going to sell the book. I was Izak Haber, who he thought was just a punk off the streets, But I had trusted him. [ figured I was a human being and he was a human being,' t . "Contending that Haber is a victim of unrequited ‘hero worship,' Hoffman says he entered into the original agreement on the premise that he would have to do some minor | writing and editing. Most of the information actually included in the printed version, Hoffman says, was gleaned after Haber had submitted a manuscript largely copied ‘word for word' from underground sources, ~64= See ee eee hen aren cole i eel A at RE nn de Se