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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1879 Excerpt: ... I believe that the illiterate, semi-stolid character of our agricultural labourers, and of the lower class of our work-people in towns, is in a considerable degree owing to the dearness and inaccessibility of books. I believe that if books were as cheap in England as they are in America, the character of our people would undergo a change; and now that curiosity is awakened and readers multiplied by the establishment of a national system of education, the time has come for considering the subject. As one grows older one sees that the old books are left behind, and that the new books are the books which are really read. William Longman, Esq.--Before a Parliamentary Committee Mr. John Murray was asked whether it was likely that an author going to sell the copyright of his work to a publisher, would get more for a copyright of sixty years than for a copyright of thirty. What would your opinion be on that point 1--I do not think that he would. Are you aware what proportion of the books published by your firm are registered 1--No, but I should think that one or two per cent, of new books would be the utmost. Are not books sometimes sold to circulating libraries at fifty per cent. discount upon the nominal price 1--I believe that novels are. Taking the price of a book at 31s. 6d. you would sell it at 21s.?--Somewhere about that. Sharon Grote Turner, Esq.--You are, I think, the secretary and legal adviser of the Copyright Association 1--Yes; I and my predecessors have been connected with copyright for I should think thirty or forty years, and have been concerned for many of the chief authors and publishers. Copyright is hardly the same as any other species of property that you can imagine. If you have a leasehold house you can go and see it, and you do not require ...
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