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Publisher's confession

Title: Publisher's confession / by Walter H. Page; with an introduction by F. N. Doubleday.
Author: Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918.
Publication: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923.

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Description

xii, 245 p. : front. (facsim.); 19 cm

Subject

Publishers and publishing

Note

Previously published anonymously.
Rare Book copy 2: In original dust jacket.

Contents

The ruinous policy of large royalties.--Why "bad" novels succeed and "good" ones fail.--Are authors an irritable tribe?--Has publishing become commercialized?--Has the unknown author a change?--The printer who issues books at the author's expense.--The advertising of books still experimental.--The story of a book from author to reader.--The limits of the book market.--Plain words to authors and publishers.--On editorship.--On writing.

LCCN

23014689

OCLC

639658
ocm00639658

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Columbia University Libraries