A Publisher’s Confession, by Walter Hines Page.
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About this eBook
- Title
- A Publisher's Confession
- Credits
- Produced by Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Publishers and publishing
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54892
- Release Date
- June 11, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A PUBLISHER’S CONFESSION
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
- 4.A Publisher’s Confession — CHAPTER I THE RUINOUS POLICY OF LARGE ROYALTIES — NO MONEY ON THAT BASIS — THE STABILITY OF THE PUBLISHER — AN AUTHOR’S BLUNDER — THE “BOOMED” BOOK PASSING — THE INCOME OF AUTHORS
- 5.CHAPTER II WHY “BAD” NOVELS SUCCEED AND “GOOD” ONES FAIL
- 6.CHAPTER III ARE AUTHORS AN IRRITABLE TRIBE?
- 7.CHAPTER IV HAS PUBLISHING BECOME COMMERCIALIZED?
- 8.CHAPTER V HAS THE UNKNOWN AUTHOR A CHANCE?
- 9.CHAPTER VI THE PRINTER WHO ISSUES BOOKS AT THE AUTHOR’S EXPENSE
- 10.CHAPTER VII THE ADVERTISING OF BOOKS STILL EXPERIMENTAL
- 11.CHAPTER VIII THE STORY OF A BOOK FROM AUTHOR TO READER
- 12.CHAPTER IX THE PRESENT LIMITS OF THE BOOK MARKET
- 13.CHAPTER X PLAIN WORDS TO AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS
- 14.Transcriber’s Notes
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