Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth General Meeting of the American Library Association / Held at Kaaterskill, N. Y., June 23-28, 1913

by Unknown

In all these calculations per dollar of sale, no allowance is made for depreciation of stock, fixtures, bad accounts, etc., etc.

It is hoped that a careful analysis of this table will help solve the library problem.

TABLE NO. 1.

		Published Price	Discount to Libraries	Sold to Libraries at	Cost to Booksellers	Cost per Dollar of Sale	Total Cost	Loss	Gain	Total Loss	Total Gain
Cost per Dollar of Sale 28%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	1/3	10,623.93	9,145.56	2,974.70	12,120.26	1,496.33
	Net	21,099.98	1/10	18,989.99	14,854.44	5,317.19	20,171.63	1,181.64		2,677.97
Cost per Dollar of Sale 20%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	1/3	10,623.93	9,145.56	2,124.78	11,270.04	646.11		308.55
	Net	21,099.98	1/10	18,989.99	14,854.44	3,797.99	18,652.43		337.56
Cost per Dollar of Sale 15%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	1/3	10,623.93	9,145.56	1,593.59	10,739.15	115.22
	Net	21,099.98	1/10	18,989.99	14,854.44	2,848.49	17,702.93		1,287.06		1,171.84
Cost per Dollar of Sale 10%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	1/3	10,623.93	9,145.56	1,062.39	10,207.95		415.98
	Net	21,099.98	1/10	18,989.99	14,854.44	1,898.99	16,753.43		2,236.56		2,652.54
Cost per Dollar of Sale 5%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	1/3	10,623.93	9,145.56	531.19	9,676.75		947.18
	Net	21,099.98	1/10	18,989.99	14,854.44	949.49	15,803.93		3,186.06		4,133.24

TABLE NO. 2.

The following tabulation is compiled on the same basis as Table No. 1, but showing the result to the bookseller, as to profit and loss, if the bookseller increased the discount to the libraries, on regular books, from 1/3 to 2/5, and on net books from 1/10 to 1/5.

		Published Price	Discount to Libraries	Sold to Libraries at	Cost to Booksellers	Total Cost	Loss	Gain	Total Loss	Total Gain
Cost per Dollar of Sale 28%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	2/5	9,561.53	9,145.56	2,677.22	11,822.78	2,261.25
	Net	21,099.98	1/5	16,879.99	14,854.44	4,726.39	19,580.53	2,700.54	4,961.79
Cost per Dollar of Sale 15%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	2/5	9,561.53	9,145.66	1,434.22	10,579.78	1,018.25
	Net	21,099.98	1/5	16,879.99	14,854.44	2,531.99	17,386.13	506.14	1,524.39
Cost per Dollar of Sale 10%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	2/5	9,561.53	9,145.56	956.15	10,101.71	540.18
	Net	21,099.98	1/5	16,879.99	14,854.44	1,687.99	16,542.43	337.56	202.62
Cost per Dollar of Sale 5%.
Non	Net	15,935.85	2/5	9,561.53	9,145.56	478.07	9,623.62	62.10
	Net	21,099.98	1/5	16,879.99	14,854.44	843.99	15,698.43	1,181.56

June, 1913
Report of the Bookbuying Committee of the American Library Association, 1912-13

In November, 1912, your committee was notified by the secretary that the executive board asked it to continue its negotiations with the committee on libraries of the American Booksellers' Convention.