Publishers and the public : reprinted from The Times of 1852.

  • The Times.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Publishers and the public : reprinted from The Times of 1852. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    may not buy second-hand boobs when they want them unless they pay for them the full retail price of new copies. The reproductions from The Times of 1852 which will be found iu this pamphlet show that the publishers failed to enforce their monopoly fifty-four years ago. As these articles show, the publishers were then defeated by the public, as they will now be defeated by the public. The Times, however, is now in a position to defend the public, not only by giving voice to public opinion, as it did in 1852, but by proving in practice what it Avas then only able to preach. In establishing The Times Book Club, The Times itself founded and will firmly maintain an organization for the circulation, without charge, of books among its subscribers, and for the sale of books at fair prices. In 1852 The Times could do no more than say that it was desirable that books should be sold as freely as were other commodities. To-day The Times can point to its Book Club to prove that there is at any rate one place in England at which the public can buy books without yielding to the exorbitant demands of the publishers. The reader’s attention is especially directed to pages 33 and 49 for the opinions of the late Mr. Glad- stone and the Lord Chief Justice Campbell.