Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — American Books. [ARTICLE]

American Books.

Just so long as reprinted editions of foreign books are cheaper than copyrighted American books, the readers among us will be more familiar with the works of foreign writers than they are with those produced at home. People whose means are limited cannot afford to pay a dollar or a dollar and a half or probably two dollars for a novel even by our best writers when they can get literature of the same class by foreign authors for less than half these prices. If our leading writers want their books to be read by any considerable number of their countrymen, they will have to put them out in cheap as well as high-priced editions.