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...Copyright 1963 by Ervin Drake. Reprinted by permission of Harms...
...Fields was less pure than he pretended, he was a better publisher than most. Fields instituted the practice, revolutionary before the international copyright law was signed, of paying royalties to British authors. And the reader is rather fond of him when he retires from the book trade to lecture yokel audiences on "cheerfulness" and his recollections of Whittier. Historian Tryon treats his subject gently in a placid Victorian prose that is almost too well suited to his subject...
...raced to be first in print. It was a dead heat. Both versions appeared the same day at the same price. Dutton, offering the "authorized" version, is paying royalties to the Soviet government. Praeger is pirating the book on the ground that Russia, which refuses to join world copyright agreements, pirates U.S. books. Publisher Frederick Praeger was so excited by his steal that he locked one translator in his Greenwich Village house for eleven days, and moved in two editors, two typists, and "enormous quantities of Scotch." The Scotch did not help. The Praeger translation is much the sloppier...
Crane Brinton, one of the three co-authors, said that all copyright privileges for the text have been turned over to the publishers, Prentice-Hall Inc. Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, stated that the public schools were entirely within their rights at attempting to enforce separation of church and state...
Four years ago, the National Council of Churches, which still owns the RSV's copyright and last year collected $190,000 in royalties on its sales, began looking around for additional publishers. Of the five new firms, only Philadelphia's A. J. Holman Co. will battle Nelson in the field of expensive pulpit Bibles. The other companies all claim to have some feature all to themselves...