A
PUBLISHER’S
CONFESSION

NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
1905

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Ruinous Policy of Large Royalties	[3]
II	Why “Bad” Novels Succeed and “Good” Ones Fail	[27]
III	Are Authors an Irritable Tribe?	[45]
IV	Has Publishing Become Commercialized?	[61]
V	Has the Unknown Author a Chance?	[79]
VI	The Printer Who Issues Books at the Author’s Expense	[99]
VII	The Advertising of Books Still Experimental	[115]
VIII	The Story of a Book from Author to Reader	[131]
IX	The Present Limits of the Book Market	[147]
X	Plain Words to Authors and Publishers	[163]

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