Word: reprinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missile at once set up widening ripples in the U.S. publishing pond. The New Yorker's irascible, bristle-topped Editor Harold W. Ross (and his co-editors) sent a bristling letter to contributors, told them that the New Yorker would no longer allow the Digest to reprint any New Yorker material. Reasons...
...Digest started out as a reprint magazine, but grew into something quite different. Nowadays a large proportion of its contents is frankly original with the Digest and not presented as reprint material; and of the stuff that is presented as reprint material, much actually originates in the office of the Digest and then gets farmed out to some other magazine for first publication. The effect of this (apart from spreading a lot of money around) is that the Digest is beginning to generate a considerable fraction of the contents of American magazines. This gives us the creeps, as does...
...subsidized" and "myth of reprint" were horrid words to his ears, the Digest's tall, balding DeWitt Wallace (with his wife, co-editor and co-owner) gave no sign of it. Said he: "The unusual growth of the Digest in the past ten years has been due in no small degree to the opposition, from time to time, of various magazines. It has had a highly salutary effect in keeping us on our toes editorially. We believe that the product will continue to speak for itself...
...teacher who meant so much to the Orient has been misrepresented, parodied and neglected by the part of the West that most needed his teachings. Occidental understanding of Confucius, difficult to come by in any edition, gains in the Modern Library's reprint, as a handsome gift book, of Dr. Lin Yutang's selection of Confucian sayings (The Wisdom of Confucius...
...Body Is Found. The Fabric of the Human Body is best seen today in a magnificent reprint made in Munich (Bremer Presse) in 1934, sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine. This enormous folio (height 22 in., weight 20 lb., price $95 a copy) was made possible by the discovery in Munich in 1932 of almost all the original Calcar-attributed woodblocks. More than 200 turned up, in perfect condition. Bremer Presse craftsmen made restrikes of the blocks, on dampened rag paper, with such exquisite care that the results are far more legible than in the first great 16th...