Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — Author and Publisher. [ARTICLE]

Author and Publisher.

A young author without a name but with a meritorious manuscript will in the case of a majority of publishing houses receive in answer to his request to publish a proposition to do so provided the author will forward from S3OO to SSOO, according to the size of the book, the condition offered being that the publishing house will then put the book on the market and account to the author for 75 per cent, of the wholesale price of the book. Some publishing houses will accept the SSOO check of the author and agree in consideration to return the same when the book reaches an edition, say of 2,000, after which a copyright or royalty will be allowed the author somewhat larger than if the author invested in the. work. In either case the demand is that the author shall also become a publisher, using the regular pubtfshihg firms as agents. jr know a miser who ne\er lets a silver dollar pass through his hands wjthont trying to pluck the eagle’s feathers.