Word: reprints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tarrant- Lippincott ($2). A mousy little clerk accidentally becomes a gentlemanly crook by night, worries his old landlady, a woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...
Because Reader's Digest, originator and most successful exponent of the cut-and reprint idea, had already condensed a number of books with beneficial effects on their sales (TIME, Nov. 2), most publishers approached by Mr. Black were friendly. Book Digest's royalties to publishers are to increase as its circulation climbs. The magazine will attempt no fiction condensations, stick to non-fiction products from a long list of publishers including Doubleday, Doran & Co., Harper & Brothers, Alfred...
According to the present law, though a publisher must consult the author before reprinting a book and a playwright has legal right to a reasonably careful production, the owner of a picture can reproduce it in any form he chooses unless the reproduction rights have been specifically reserved. As Spokesman Sloan pointed out last week, a 10? reprint of a popular novel will not affect the author's reputation; a poor reproduction of a painting, for those who are not familiar with the artist's original work, may be disastrous...
Alexander Laing (The Sea Witch) ran across the reminiscences of John Nicol in the Boston Public Library while doing research for an historical romance. Thinking only his inexperience had made him unaware of the book, he was surprised to find that it was almost unknown, the only reprint badly bowdlerized and the original issue, published in 1822, unnoticed at the time it appeared. The Life and Adventures of John Nicol is one of the first autobiographies of the sea written from the point of view of a common sailor. A brief, well-written book, beautifully Dound and illustrated...
...since the practice began a year-and-a-half ago. some 60 such articles have first been planted in magazines like Scribner's, Forum and Century, American Mercury, North American Review, Today The Rotarian. All Reader's Digest gets from this curious deal is the right to reprint what it had originally created. This maneuver indicates that, if necessary, Editor Wallace could furnish his large and loyal following with a readable publication without having recourse to the files of other magazines...