Category: Business/Management
_How it Operates to the Disadvantage of Both Author and Publisher-- The Actual Facts and Figures--Authors’ Earnings Greatly Exaggerated by the Press--Books Sell Too Cheaply--What a Fair Price for All Concerned Would Be._
_How it Operates to the Disadvantage of Both Author and Publisher-- The Actual Facts and Figures--Authors’ Earnings Greatly Exaggerated by the Press--Books Sell Too Cheaply--Wha...
5. CHAPTER V_A Popular Illusion Based on “Graustark” and “David Harum” Dispelled-- Publishers Blunder More Often in Welcoming Than in Rejecting Manuscripts of the “New Man”--Guess Work Ente...
2. CHAPTER II_The First May Have No Literary Quality, but They Have a Genuine Quality--Power of Construction the Main Thing in Story-Writing-- Literary Reviews of Novels are Regarded as of L...
4. CHAPTER IV_A Charge Fairly Met and Its Truths Admitted--Many Features of the Business in Which a Low Tone Prevails--The Literary Solicitor an Abhorrent Creature--On the Whole, However, Co...
10. CHAPTER X_It Pays the Author to Be Honest and Frank with His Publisher, Who Is, After All, His Best Friend--Some Recent Instances of a Discouraging Sort--The Need of Greater Dignity and...
7. CHAPTER VII_Publishers Are Uncertain as to the Amount of Sales Made in That Way--How the Book Business Differs from the Shoe Trade, for Example--The Problem of How to Get the Books Before...
8. CHAPTER VIII_The Divers Problems Which Constantly Arise--Every Step of the Way Beset with Expense, So That the Publisher Is Amazed When He Finds a Surplus--Why Books of Large Sale Are Hard...
3. CHAPTER III_An Emphatic Answer in the Negative--They Are Gentlemen and Ladies and Treat Their Publisher with Courtesy--Bonds of Friendship Thus Formed That Endure--Some Amusing and Nettlin...
9. CHAPTER IX_In Spite of the Many Books Issued and the Many “Large Sellers,” the People Are Very Poorly Equipped with Good Books--Circulating Libraries and the Sale of Books--Many Neglected...
6. CHAPTER VI_A Heartless Pirate Who Preys Upon the Unsophisticated and Ambitious Writer--The Contract in Which This Sort of “Publisher” Cannot Lose--The Inevitable Disappointment--How the P...