 | Economics - 1879 - 356 pages
...duties affecting the manufacture could be abolished, we could well spare the duty on books themselves. I can, however, imagine no state of affairs in which...advantage in the end to author, public, and publisher. A proposition will doubtless be made in the course of a year by the British Government for the appointment... | |
 | Robert Andrew Macfie - Copyright - 1879 - 450 pages
...unsuitable English edition as to stipulate that it should be sold here in a Russian translation. ... I can, however, imagine no state of affairs in which...and most important part of the cost of a book can be economised by being divided between the two markets, the greater the advantage in the end to author,... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 752 pages
...duties affecting the manufacture could be abolished, we could well | spare the duty on books themselves. I can, however, imagine no state of affairs in which...desirable to | insist upon two settings of type for a book de( signed for different groups of English-speaking readers ; and the more generally this first and... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - Copyright, International - 1879 - 64 pages
...duties affecting the manufacture could be abolished, we could well spare the duty on books themselves. markets, the greater the advantage in the end to author, public, and publisher. A proposition will doubtless be made in the course of a year by the British Government for the appointment... | |
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... the present conditions of trade are maintained, American book-makers need not be especially troubled ten years hence by the competition of books manufactured in England, and that, if the various duties affecting the manufacture could be abolished,... 