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Cost Of Manufacturing A Book In Amehica ...
price bound " , at and # on 1 . 60 good what paper fi , and to do sell we " have retail ?
Firsthere is the , cost of the gures lates # 350 . If 5000 , copies of the book are p sold , say the cost
of the , plates for each volume is 7 cents , . The cost of manufacturing , paper , binding , <& c , will
be about 40 cents . To this cost of manufacturing there ought to be added a commission for the publish & c . of er 20 ' s per experience centon , the his selling plant , ad price vertising ; then ,
comes " retail , th price ¦ M e auth . " ' The s roya retail lty , 10 pri X . per ce being cent , # on 1 . the 50 ,
40 the We per price have cen to t then , the being trade these allowed is fi 90 cents at the , a very discoun on least t an of . gures per copy
ing edition , & c of , 40 5 , 000 cents ; P commission lates I— , 7 cents X , 20 ; manufactur per •/ cent , on
roya trade lty price 15 cents at 90 ; total cents , 80 18 cen cen ts— ts leav ; author ing the ' s
pub V lishers V , 10 cents * profit , . If , however , -J the book sells only to the extent of 1000 copies /
the cost of the «/ plates is 35 cent , s per x copy , instead of 7 , and the result is a loss of 18 cents
a show copy bu to t a the ile publisher of metal , who d has onl nothing for the to pgoo ^ y
foundry . This x estimate , is for a first w -class , well-made book , not fiction . If we take a
7 # 1 cen _ . 50 ts novel we 3 cents may pay --- down -wor - k : Plates cen - ts , ; y paper j f , ; 'X press , j ;^
bind alt ing ies , 15 15 cents cents ; total advertising 91 cen , ts 45 but cents the .. ; roy ; ;
t cen rad t , and generall , 10 y per obtain cent on . — fiction that , is at , they least pay 40 per for
ge o the ts — book 20 cents 81 cents profit x . The if his publisher sales reach in this 5 , case 000
cop 1000 ies , or ies makes are a sold loss . of The 2 cen difference ts a copy if in onl the y cop
publisher , ' s profits between this and the preceding case arises from the greater risk in the
wide latter of . the We mark do not if we think that that for we one are # very 1 . 50 say
novel 1 — 000 — — . ' that By passes an easy 5 , 000 calcula copies tion , ten it will fail t be o reach seen
in that , - the it is States possible 4 / as to m well / lose ** as money in Eng by land publishing . We
in wonder America if there who are hold any the disci doctrine ples of Mr that . Besant
publishers there never make losses . X
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Dec . 1 , 11890 The Publishers' Circular 15 S 9 .
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Erckmann-Chatrian . -The Leisure Hour for December , which is a particularly good
b number num Richard hfir . , contains contains Heath on a a Inghly hmhlv Erckmann interesti interesting -Chatrian ng article arfci that ^ le wil y l appeal 1 to many readers : — ' Could ¦ you have 1
had the W W *^* W . *^ F a aubourg M - ^ - peep W *^ ^^ ^* - ^ —^ into — —^ St - — ' -- — tha . -Denis m t estaminet / say — » Mr 011 . the — Heath ° — ~~ hei ¦ m ¦ " ^ . ght ' you v « o f
ance would as have any seen pair two could men well as be unlike . One in appear Italian , -
in wise w r ^ rm ~^ aspect ^ - ^^ " no ~ " ^» - * t ^ , with ' remarkable — ¦ ' - ¦ - a -. grea . ^ — - _ t inane ; _ the - of other — ha ^_ ir a ^ , but thoroug ^__ , ^^ ^_ , w-r other ^^ ^^ ^ i w ^ m ^* ^ h" - *^
and Teuton , wi bald th a long dressed oval in face the , hi old gh fore Alsatian head , very ,
flo cos wing tume coat —plush with breeches metal buttons , coloured big s wais hoes tcoat and ,
Ohatrian a great Alsatian ci-devant felt hat lass . -maker The first , , h Alexandre oolmas , ter , g , ,
second and fina Emile lly railw Erckmann ay employ one 6 and time n law ovelist -atudent ; the
Th finall is y for , novelis tears t , sawyer or so , , tner smal shi l commenced landowner . , y yparp
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about so many 1848 of at their Phalsbourg stories ; in the Alsace good , the genius scene who of
broug rhetoric ht at them the together Phalsbourg being College the , professor M . Perrot of . They — were — both - —¦ — ¦ fugitives from the occupations
- - ™ - m - •—r - — ^^^^ S ^ i *^ i » ^^^ n . ^* a « r «*^^^ ^^^^^ # ^» w ¦ ^ " t n _ 1 irr Ohatrian in which ^ then their abo parents ut twenty had -two p years laced of them .
had not onl , y learnt the ancestral art of glass age - , making ( his family being one of those broht
in the seventeenth century by Colbert fro ug m Italy Italv into into tFrance rance tor for the the nnrnnsft of of national national --
ising that industry ) , but he purpose had been sent to Belgium to perfect himself in the art .
However seized — , th him e , v long and — - — -- ^ ^ ing , throwing ^^ ih ^ k for ^^ V V ^ ^ a ( A lit all ^ e rary up ^^ B Vh ^ m , ^ h career ^ e ^^ ^ re ^^ t 1 ^ urne ^ rf « ^ had «&^ fc ^^ d ^^^
ing to Phaisbourg . Erckmann and , f supported our years himself his seni b y , teach was a - law lawstudent student
but -- working at at in the the it with JUcole Ecole so littl du du e Droit Droit heart in in th Paris Paris at he ., took five years to pass his examinations .
Meanwhile uoiiege College he of or had France trance spent ana and most the the Sorbonne Sorbonne of his time . aand nd at had had the
a without lready pub their ~ — — """ lished ^^ trag ^^ ^^ C something * % ic ^^ s"rf * i fc de ^«^^^ , « . and « . . . *^ Few v « k Erckmann J ^^ , lives % ^ &^ A * * M <* are A * A -
Chatrian than fort ' s career ' friendshi is no exception their . After tners more hi so fruitfu y l of years goodended in p , a par sad manner p , .
About two years ago , the health very of M . Chatrian began to declinebut in a not to t
understand in its , first stages way . It proved easy in j the sequel that form of mental ailment in
w and hich it took the suffere the turn r believes so often seen himself —the persecu man most ted , j
loved tionand becoming calumny the . obj The ect saddest of susp T part icion was , opposi that - '
neither , » they themselves ¦ ^ ^^ —^— ^ v nor - w ^ - "w - ^ r ^ . their ^ p ^ ^ v ' - ^ ^ W friends ^^ * V *^* seem ^»^» ¦ ¦ ^» V ^ T | to have been aware of the true state of things
un this til state the of estrangement mind the sufferer became talked public and . wrote In
was against warm his l old attached friend to until Chatrian a young wrote man who an y
ar things ticle in charged the Fiqaro Erckmann , which with , amo a ng want other of
patriotism , in living in Germany . This charge was probably the reason which induced M .
cer Erckmann tainly tended to bring to destroy an action his for credit libel with , as his it . 1
cou Cour ntrymen ts of Justice . When in the Pari cas s e it came appeared on in that the !
Erckmann lived in Alsace because , the doctor said it was necessary for his health to live in
and the air in proof in which of his he had entire passed want his of childhood sympathy ,
that with the he had conquerors never of learn Alsace t to it speak was stated their
language the — — ' —¦ ^™^ whole * — ^™ — . ~^ ma But — ~* tter — — — — what " ¦ ^™^ ¦ , was v r of ! ¦ 1 ¦» r the cours w ¦ * ¦ n statement e ¦ , »¦ bes i" jn 0 ^ jv t f ^ cleare mad amw . ^^ i ^ - ^^ - ^ d e ^ up ^ *^ ^ ^* ^ ^ —^ ^^
of by M his . Chatrian client ' s ' s hea counsel lth . The concerning Court the state M . gave
and Erckmann against heavy the author damages of the against article the . M Fi . Cha garo
-Sep trian tember did not 3 last long . survive Who does the not trial sympathise , dying on
and with so this pro trag lific ic of close good of to a others friendshi 1 ' p bo unique -- ¦¦ ¦ ?<>•
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son On & the Hod 24 th . ult . leted Messrs at . Sotheb their rooms y , Wilkin the - ge comp
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 1, 1890, page 1559, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01121890/page/11/
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