Author: Walter Hines Page
Title: A Publisher's Confession
Description: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1905. 8vo. 176 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Cloth-backed boards with quarter cloth spine. Minor toning along edges of boards. Deckled pages. Minor wear on corners and slight sunning of spine. Contents: The ruinous policy of large royalities -- Why "bad" novels succeed and "good" ones fail -- Are authors an irritable tribe? -- Has publishing become commercialized? -- Has the unknown author a chance? -- 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 present limits of the book market -- Plain words to authors and publishers. .

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