Mathew Carey, Editor, Author and Publisher: A Study in American Literary DevelopmentColumbia University Press, 1912 - 144 páginas |
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Página 105 - I have returned many scores, if not hundreds, of manuscripts of American authors, unopened even, simply from the fact that it is impossible to make the books of most American authors pay, unless they are first published and acquire recognition through the columns of the magazines.
Página 92 - As yet we have not got through the edition of the other work & up to this time it has not returned to us the expense of its publication. We assure you that we regret this on your account as well as our own, as it would give us great pleasure to promote your views in relation to publication.
Página 99 - ... creating or making seems to have the first claim. If anything can justly give a man an exclusive right to the occupancy and enjoyment of a thing it must be the fact that he made it. The right of a farmer and mechanic to the exclusive enjoyment and right of disposal of what they make or produce is never questioned. What, then, can make a difference between the produce of muscular strength and the produce of the intellect? If it should be said that...
Página 114 - ... still write in support of those claims, I must be blind not to see that a dungeon is my doom. If I write at all, and do not write in support of those claims, I not only degrade myself, but I do a great injury to the rights of the nation by appearing to abandon them. If I remain here, I must therefore cease to write, either from compulsion, or from a sense of duty to my countrymen ; therefore it is impossible to do any good to the cause of my country by remaining in it : but if I remove to a country...
Página 42 - The New Olive Branch: Or, An Attempt to Establish an Identity of Interest between Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce...
Página 41 - I. The demoralizing and debasing effects of manufacturing establishments. II. Their injurious interference with commerce. III. The high rate of wages in the united states. IV. The great extent of our vacant lands, which ought to be settled previously to the erection of manufacturing establishments on a large scale. V. The extortions practised, and the extravagant prices charged by manufacturers during the war. VI. The loss of revenue that would arise from protecting or prohibitory duties. VII. The...
Página 104 - In view of the whole case, your committee are satisfied that no form of international copyright can fairly be urged upon Congress upon reasons of general equity, or of constitutional law ; that the adoption of any plan for the purpose which has been laid before us would be of very doubtful advantage to American authors as a class, and would be not only an unquestionable and permanent injury to the manufacturing interests concerned in producing books, but a hindrance to the diffusion of knowledge...
Página 103 - Art," of which Mr. Bryant was made president, and EC Stedman secretary. The primary object of the association was stated to be " to promote the enactment of a just and suitable international copyright law for the benefit of authors and artists in all parts of the world.