AUTHORS’ INCOMES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 3

AUTHORS’ INCOMES

before English authors publishers are alarming, chiefly inCT« Of the lar Se and continuous bert o A price of paper. (Keren*? --J, .as been saying that high nfl), an “, high taxation were the ruin dm™ *? 01 2. an Ern Pire: they certainly uve the Romans out of the city into dri™2 Untrysi d e - British authors were •n, ® a ? ut almost twenty years ago.) whilk 18 also a Government bill ok“v’PPears to threaten the monoptrmiki k shops. A good deal of ttinij and bitter wit —has been fr I J/“. u P by a suggestion, coming ihouia u Publishers, that royalties u out; and has been inby an excellent proposal by op hy that the State Libraries, ami ? re free - should pay the author is ♦ u royalty every time his book with out - The Free Libraries, DkaL their background of Victorian are violently opposed to *Y a scheme. twenty-five years ago, Or.. “ e , was a worker-writer, Sean aa^ B ?'. .blowing up into a rage aSr ‘ tfle free libraries. People hate something for nothing. Yet lik e M r Brophy’s scheme hX’- . once Proposed “act of copycoml ' ax on classics —is bound to anth sooner or later; simply because 100 ors hiP as it has existed in the last Tih-, y . ears is a dying profession, writ a society used to support nters; socialist, managed or monopinfJ??S le ty does not. Perhaos this is ™enUonal. It is more “efficient” to vV fading down to a handful of ofth Se U ers ; and of course the mind u -P e public is more easily controlled “at is done. . —V. S. Pritchett