<Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Ian Fleming, in letter to his editor </Td> </Tr> <P> The Spy Who Loved Me was published on 16 April 1962 in the UK as a hardcover edition by publishers Jonathan Cape; it was 221 pages long and cost 15 shillings . Artist Richard Chopping once again undertook the cover art, and raised his fee from the 200 guineas he had charged for Thunderball, to 250 guineas . The artwork included a commando knife which was borrowed from Fleming's editor, Michael Howard at Jonathan Cape . The Spy Who Loved Me was published in the US by Viking Books on 11 April 1962 with 211 pages and costing $3.95 . </P> <P> The reception to the novel was so bad that Fleming wrote to Michael Howard at Jonathan Cape, to explain why he wrote the book: "I had become increasingly surprised to find my thrillers, which were designed for an adult audience, being read in schools, and that young people were making a hero out of James Bond...So it crossed my mind to write a cautionary tale about Bond, to put the record straight in the minds particularly of younger readers...the experiment has obviously gone very much awry". </P> <P> Fleming subsequently requested that there should be no reprints or paperback version of the book and for the British market no paperback version appeared until after Fleming's death . Because of the heightened sexual writing in the novel, it was banned in a number of countries . In the US the story was also published in Stag magazine, with the title changed to Motel Nymph . </P>

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