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    test papers set by the College of Preceptors , the Oxford and — Cambrid — ge 3 Localsand the

    London University Matriculation —^ , examinations .

    Mr , James Thin , Edinburgh . —The new publications of Mr . Thin — —who holds the

    ap-, a . * pointment of publisher to the University of Edinburgh—include * Bo / tanieal Types—De-A A ^ h dA ^ B >~ d T ^ BB *¦»*¦¦> ^ ^ BWBBB > i . a »*^ Bl A ^»

    Ten scrip T tions ypes of ' b y W S . tructure E . Fotherg and ill Life M . History A . B . Sc of ;

    an enlarged «* , edition ¦¦> ata am of ' _— . Elementary —¦¦_ .. «¦ * . , Dynamics . BBBmmm ^ -, 41 / ¦ b *¦ . ' y ¦¦>*> . * James ¦¦¦> * . *¦> Blackie aL _ , _^ MB ^^_ i ^^ BB . A ., formerl _ iA y ^^ a ^ BBBBB , Examiner asm aft aa * J ^ ta

    " and in Mathematics the third edition in the Universit of * Continuous y of Edinburg Latin h , Prose' by James MoreM . A . Head Classical

    Master P ^ affA aaPS - , of the a * . ^ Aberdeen a «¦¦ _ am , Grammar a * " * - *! , School aM ^ tJ wai 4 bb . This work contains , lucid explanations of

    dimcult difficult constructions constructions , , intricacies intricacies oi of style stvle . , andr anda number of searching and carefully graduated exercises .

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    Then , if the publisher does not pl ay the game of these monopolistshe will soon be left out

    in th e cold ••> , and * ¦ the _ m \ * final , -a « evolution < M . . ft will W ' be * ¦ ihe _ ' •¦* combination with the book trade monopolof

    a monopol y -. of _— fix ~ a ^ ed political ato 4 fc a . # ¦ ^ , economical aft OBI , y and scientific DUlCUblUW tende KClJA-l * . 3 ncies AJU ^ . l * 5 ra , j Ai in * the U 4-. O hands U . CW . XVt . 0 of V / i . C a * l compara V > VJ . lUjLSa . »« fc - -

    tively restricted circle of authors , " publishers , and wholesale dealerswhich will dominate

    the collective intellectual , activity of the German people .

    But those who are now forwarding such schemes will find themselves bitterly deceived

    if they cherish the hope of always getting books cheap . They do not take into account

    the consequences of their wrong-doing . The sooner the provincial book trade is crushed

    b book ¦~ ~ w ~ y - ^ hp ~^ v the —^ v ^^ v s " ^^ underseller be — ¦ —¦ again — - ™ - ^ ar ^ asi ^^ ~~ ~~ ~ forced ~ — the sooner up am , m a will nd the the prices cou - ntry — — of ^^

    purchaser will -find , to his astonishment , that long instead -sufferin ' of the g moderate bookseller prices and nei his g respectable hbour was

    content to charge to account he has now to deal . with a clique of irresponsible ,

    untrustworthy , ever-changing , and migrating book chapmen . With such a result as thisneither

    the interest of the individual , of the , public , or of the State is served . - i

    The writer then makes an appeal to provincial institutes and public bodies to support their local booksellersand thusin some

    measurecounteract the , j machination , of the undersellers , .

    He proceeds to describe the organisation of the German Book Trade . Thereas here

    the trade may be roughly divided , into pub- , lishers (* book producers JL ) X ' , and booksellers

    ( or book distributors = Sortimenter ) . The publisher h is really a book producer ^~ « i , because it is ^ ^^ ^ ma ^ n > aa ^ m ^

    the publisher who enables an author ^^ to have ^^ his work produced X . in print JL , and thus made

    accessible to the public . Publishers and Looksellers founded the German Booksellers'Union . Thishoweverwhile regulating the dealings

    between , its 2 , 300 , members , has ' no 4 ^ legal statu s in the-country and cannot control those

    bookdealers who are not its members . There are about 7 , 000 persons who trade more or less

    in books throughout the Fatherland , but of these , about 5 ^ 000 also deal in stationery and

    other things . The price h of a book isof courseregu i ™™

    -lated by the cost of — production — — , -g — - — - — ^— - ~— — — — w ~^ and r ^—^ , ^ y ^— ^ the F ^^ t anticipated sale . For instancea book printed

    in an edition of 500 copies and , published at 5 Marks ( = 5 s . ) can be sold for 4 Marks or

    3 be Mark of 1 s 000 50 Pfenni copies ge . ( In * = Ss order . 6 ^ . ) , to if the dispose edition of

    these 1 , , 000 copies , the aid of the provincial bookseller is required , for the Berlin

    wholesale dealers can only skim off the cream of j the book-buy «/ ing C » public OL , and cannot ~ do —the

    work of the country bookseller , who knows his clients , their tastes and idiosyncrasies . ,

    To To let let these these men men be be ruined ruined , tor for the the benefit benefit of or the wholesale dealer , means , making books j ] dearer without one penny benefit to author or j

    ki publisher ndl And business then . , in relationshi conclusion , to which think have of all lasted the j i j j

    through y long years between ps the genialintelligent , often cultivated and refined , provincial , I . ¦ ¦¦ - ; ¦ ; ¦ ' ' ' ' ' ¦ ¦ ' - ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ " . ¦ ' ¦ .-: ¦ " J ^ jWW

    ^ UNDERSELLING AND COUNTRY

    BOOKSELLERS IN GERMANY . The question of Underselling in the Book

    Trade is one of such importance that we feel justified in placing before our readers the substance of an article in a German

    contemporary on the evils resulting from it to the 1 provincial bookseller and the reading public in

    ¦ i that The part article of Europe begins . by stating that the German Provincial Book Trade has been for some

    time in a critical condition , caused by a ring of Leipzi X g and Berlin undersellers . which , by % /

    reckless offers of discount , has sought to get the country book trade into its clutches and to simply gull the provincial booksellers . To

    : ; this result the action of various trade assoj ciations has contributed greatly by obtaining

    books direct from Berlin and Leipzig . \ This seems quite right in the eyes of

    \ officials and taxpayers , who think that one j cannot interest buy is bounded in too cheap by that a market wider . economical But

    selfinterest whose aim is to benefit all alike . The praiseworth JL y desire of officials , to get CP their

    books as cheap as possible , must not be the means of such a social iniquity as the ruin of the Provincial Book Trade . That an unhealthy

    state of the trade will result is patent from the fact that this underselling ring is not deterred by / present jL-- losses so - long O as it can

    absorb the country business . But what will be the result ? Simply this : It will react upon the publisher . He will no longer have

    the JL support of hundreds of intelli gent O , conscientious , and painstaking men throughout the

    country to put his well-selected and well-got-up books before their customers . But he must rely upon this handful of wholesale traders

    , who will trouble not one jot as to what they sell , and care nothing so long as they can quickly turn over their capital . The

    bookseller who in his email way perhaps has contributed to the education of the country must go to the wall and ive place to what will

    I be a monopoly . g

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1889, page 946, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081889/page/20/