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EDUCATIONAL BOOK PUBLISHING. So many of the Western states have caught the fever of state supply that the new departure promises to affect seriously, for a term of years, the methods of educational publishing. That this fashion of state supply will be permanent is by no means proven, for its disadvantages will become evident only after some years' experience. Whether permanent or not, there are certain present effects that it is worth while to consider, which convey a moral in fact to the miscellaneous as well as the educational publishing trade. The latter have learned from experience the unwisdom of pursuing methods which lead necessarily to the demoralization of their trade, and it is to be hoped that the former may take a hint before it is too late. We have often undertaken to show, what we have most firmly believed, that American school-books are, on the whole, at once the best in the world and the cheapest, considering the price which the publisher actually gets for them. Nevertheless the present fashion of state supply has been brought about in direct response to a popular cry and a settled belief of the people that school-books were dear. The key is the simple one of nominal vs. actual prices. The educational publisher has not and does not net sufficient margin to make the business of school-book publishing nearly as profitable as the brains and the work put into it demand. His actual return per book is practically too

low; the charge of high prices has found its basis in the fact that, in the nominal price which was commonly quoted in the hue and cry, there was included a disproportionate and misleading addition for so-called "trade discounts" which practically did not exist, and for the extravagant expense of school-book agents, who did not increase the total sales of books and who were simply costly high-privates in an internecine and useless warfare. We venture to say that if educational publishers had pursued in time the wiser course of cutting down the tremendous agency expenses, reducing the socalled "trade discounts" to a real discount basis, and so lowering the advertised prices (prices which were really paid only by the few simpleminded parents who presently became the "awful examples" of the demagogues) to a rate fair to consumers and to distributing dealers, there would have been no basis for the public outcry we have heard. The agents practically disgusted the public and excited its suspicion by the constant and useless changes of books which they promoted, and the public was very right in stopping that.

We have yet to see the results of the state system. Little has been heard recently of the project to make books by the state, which would probably have operated usefully by its early failure and a consequent reaction. But the present system will probably display its weaknesses. If prices are too low, the middlemen (who are not eliminated practically, after all) must fail, or the contracting publishers must lose money till they get relief in higher prices; jobbery and corruption will show themselves in the awarding of contracts (now affording a tremendous temptation because of their magnitude), simply transferred from the agents to the other people; and the inducement to publishers to better their books from time to time is

much reduced.

Meanwhile the "new scale" of "trade-list prices" has to a considerable extent deprived the publisher of the aid of the local dealer as a distributer, though it is he who may wisely take the place of the "agent." It is through him that competition may be reclaimed from the demoralizing competition of cut-throat prices and "inducements," to the wholesome competition of quality. If he keeps in stock the various lines of school-books, the committee or the teacher will select those best fitted to the particular school's special needs, and, on the whole, each publisher will sell about the same proportion of books as under the highpressure agency system.. To accomplish this there must be a fair, fixed retail price, such as a parent ought to be asked to pay for a single copy. The wholesale discount should be based