Walter Zacharius, R. I. P.

The Canadian Press: Walter Zacharius, who brought the world the romance novel and mass market fiction, dies at 87: "A longtime publisher who helped bring mass market and romance fiction into the mainstream and released the erotic classic 'Candy' has died. Walter Zacharius was 87.

Zacharius was founder and CEO of Kensington Books. He retired from there in 2005."

Zacharius's roots ran deep in the paperback world. He was a publisher in the beginning of the pbo days, back in the '50s with some of the digests.