The book fared less well in paperback in an address at the recent midwinter convention of the American Association of Publishers, Ron Busch, president of Pocket Books, said that his company had taken a $1 million write-off on the paperback edition of the book, for which it reportedly paid more than $2 million. The fiction list, as usual, was dominated by what are thought of as commercial novels, with only one so-called literary novel - John Irving's 13th-ranked ''The Hotel New Hampshire,'' published in 1981 -among the top 15 sellers. Several of the books on both hard-cover lists were published in 1981, but the sales are only for the calendar year 1982. The rankings for the hard-cover lists and the trade paperback list are based on computer-processed sales figures from 1,600 bookstores in every region of the United States the mass market list is based on computer-processed reports from bookstores and representative wholesalers with more than 40,000 outlets. Robert Ludlum's novel ''The Parsifal Mosaic'' was the biggest selling book in 1982, according to a New York Times survey, edging out the nonfiction best seller, ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book.'' Ranking first with independent bookstores and the major book chains, ''Parsifal'' sold almost twice as many copies as the fiction runnerup, ''North and South'' by John Jakes.
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