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Synopsis
Excerpt from Publishers and the Public: Reprinted From the Times of 1852
The association is not a publishers' association, but an association of the book trade generally, and originated with the retail booksellers. As publishers we are no further interested in it than so far as it has been supposed to promote the solvency of the trade and the prosperity of literary speculations. The sale of books by retail is so insignificant a part of a publisher's business that in supporting the association he cannot be actuated by a desire to obtain the double profit to which you allude.
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