Gerard Colby (earlier known as Gerard Colby Zilg) (born 1950) is an author and past president of the US National Writers Union, where he previously held various chair positions. From 1997 to 2001 he served as chair of the Vermont section.
He is notable for authoring Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain. The 1974 publication was put under contract by Prentice-Hall in anticipation of a significant quantity of books sold to Book of the Month. The book painted a portrait of DuPont enterprises and the DuPont family that was characterized as "sober but unflattering" by some but as presenting a Marxist interpretation of the company by others. In response to pressure from DuPont, Book-of-the-Month cancelled its preorder. In anticipation of lower sales, Prentice-Hall reduced its print run and scaled back its marketing plans. Colby (Zilg) sued Prentice-Hall for breach of contract. In the federal case Zilg v Prentice-Hall, Inc., the Federal District Court in New York awarded Colby damages of $24,000. In 1984 the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned the ruling. The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal the same year.[1][2] The suit is an important example of case law relating to the practice of privishing (private publishing) where a publishing house reduces its print run and support of a book so much that the book fails to reach the public.
^"Gerard Colby ZILG, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant vs. PRENTICE-HALL, INC., Defendant-Appellant and E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Defendant-Cross-Appellee"
^"SUPREME COURT ROUNDUP; JUSTICES TO CONSIDER ENFORCING OF SURGERY TO REMOVE A BULLET". New York Times. No. 17 April 1984. 16 April 1984. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
GerardColby (earlier known as GerardColby Zilg) (born 1950) is an author and past president of the US National Writers Union, where he previously held...
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advertising budgets, and pressuring reviewers to be hostile. An example is GerardColby's 1984 Du Pont: Behind the Nylon Curtain - where the Du Pont family convened...
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series Connie (1985), and as Sable Colby in the ABC series Dynasty (1985, 1988–1989) and its spin-off The Colbys (1985–1987) that would make her a household...
opera General Hospital and as the second actress to play Fallon Carrington Colby on the prime time soap opera Dynasty. She also portrayed the recurring role...
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ancestry. He was raised in Belleville, New Jersey alongside his older brother Gerard. Growing up, he worked in a Barnes & Noble and later Eyeball Records. Both...
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the CIA, and the disastrous Operation Red Sox, from 1949 to 1953; William Colby, Director from 1973 to 1976 of the CIA, and how spying methods that worked...
David Faustino as Scott Russell, Julie Ronnie as Jeannie Colby, K.C. Winkler as Caroline Colby, and David Armstrong as Passenger (uncredited). Note: Ted...
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Lincolnville since 1954, he has developed a close relationship with local Colby College.[citation needed] From 1954 to 1960, he made a number of small collages...
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