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== Publication and movie rights == ''Catch-22'' was sold to [[Simon & Schuster]], where it had been championed by editor [[Robert Gottlieb]], who, along with [[Nina Bourne]], edited and oversaw the marketing of the book.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Eller|first=Jonathan R.|date=October 1992|title=Catching a Market: The Publishing History of Catch-22|journal=Prospects|volume=17|pages=475β525|doi=10.1017/S0361233300004804}}</ref> Gottlieb was a strong advocate for the book along with [[Peter Schwed]] and [[Justin Kaplan]]. Henry Simon, a vice president at Simon & Schuster, found it repetitive and offensive.<ref name=":1" /> The editorial board decided to contract the book when Heller agreed to revisions; he signed for {{US$|1500|1961|round=-2|long=yes|showyear=yes|about=yes}}.<ref name=":1" /> Officially published on October 10, 1961, the hardcover sold for $5.95. The book was not a best-seller in hardcover in the United States. Though twelve thousand copies were sold by [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]], it never entered [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]]. It received good notices and was nominated for the [[National Book Award]] in March 1962, though [[Walker Percy]]'s ''[[The Moviegoer]]'' won. ''Catch-22'' went through four printings in hardcover but sold well on only the East Coast. The book never established itself nationally until it was published in paperback for 75 cents.<ref name="Just One Catch">{{cite book|last=Daugherty|first=Tracy|title=Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller|year=2011|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0312596859|url=https://archive.org/details/justonecatchbiog00daug}}</ref>{{rp|224β230}} Upon publication in Great Britain, the book became the No. 1 best-seller.<ref name="Just One Catch" />{{rp|233}} Don Fine of [[Dell Publishing|Dell Paperbacks]] bought the paperback reprint rights to ''Catch-22'' for $32,000. Between the paperback's release in September 1962 and April 1963, it sold 1.1 million copies.<ref name="Just One Catch" />{{rp|238β240}} In August 1962, Donadio brokered the sale of movie rights to [[Columbia Pictures]] for $100,000 plus $25,000 to write a treatment or a first draft of a screenplay.<ref name="Just One Catch" />{{rp|234}}
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