Bookman was sure he had a winner this time.
Abe Bookman was smart enough to recognize that he had
a good thing going.
Bookman racked his brain-
what did people expect when they had their fortunes read?
Given new creative freedom to experiment with the design, Bookman began making changes that Carter had resisted.
But Bookman, looking for a way to make some money and reduce his surplus stock,
agreed to do it.
When he was sober, he was a genius,” Bookman recalled to a Cincinnati Post reporter a few years later.
First, while the Syco-Seer was attracting curious browsers in stores,
it wasn't generating sales, and Bookman was convinced that it was priced too high.
Carter's patent came through the following year, and luckily for Bookman and Levinson, he had signed rights over to the partnership before he died.
Levinson brought in his brother-in-law, Abe Bookman, an engineer from the Ohio Mechanical Institute,
who suggested improvements to Carter's design- adding ridges inside the chamber to make the die spin and better randomize the answers.
Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man was described by a critic for the Springfield Republican as"a novel
of wholly fresh and delightful content," and Robert Littrell of Bookman called it"a singular and a strangely beautiful book.".