Word: reprinting
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...richly stocked smörgasbord table spread each month by U. S. magazine publishers, the first and daintiest forkfuls of reprint rights generally go to the oldest and richest customer-famed, slightly fabulous Reader's Digest. The stout little Digest totes the biggest plate because it pays the biggest prices, has kept the good will of its hosts by refusing advertising. Sometimes it makes other magazines presents of free, full-length articles which it then digests and "reprints...
...original edition, cautiously figured to last six months, was 10,000 copies. With few critics paying it attention, it sold out in eleven days. A second edition of 20,000 copies has now dwindled to its last few thousand copies, and Freud has come back as the fastest-selling reprint throughout...
...almost identical with the originals. The language has only 16 simple rules of grammar, to which there are no exceptions. Its huge vocabulary is compounded from roots common to many languages. For instance, from the root pres (to print) are derived presajho (a piece of printed matter), represi (to reprint), presejo (a printing establishment), presigi (to have printed), presisto (a printer), presilo (a printing press), nepresebla (unprintable), presinda (worthy of printing), presacho (an abominable piece of printing...
...Your reprint of the Yale "News" editorial, Isolation and Peace, was valuable, because it brought out the three main points upon which high-handed Interventionist policies rest. These are, that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, and so if a European war starts we are sure to go in; therefore we might as well enter such a conflict at the earliest opportunity; and finally, that the "people," being the most warlike group in the nation, should not be trusted with the responsibility of deciding whether to fight or not fight...
...middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint of Bernard DeVoto's sensible piece on Writing for Money, printed in the Saturday Review last year...