The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-04 00:00:00

CUPYRIGIIT.

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
TAM 10 Mlle
TIES COMMITTEE ON ♦CTS RESPECTING COPY..
RIGHTS OF PRINTED BOOKS.

Nari4,_24 dl. !Gerrit, 1913.

(Centioused from our Paper of Friday.)

Mr. LONGMANS

In exteebtlag the pries that yuu ought le rreeire fur a
wosk, to reatutherate all the espouses of it, do nut you take
lotto the eakulatioss the expose of ailvertiaiiia, edsiortihip,
tad these other arikles you have voionerateil, awl divide
slow among the whole member of books you sell ?-.-Crr-
taiuly.

If ilwrr arc eleveu copies, front which yon hays emended
three or four of those items, thou. ropier will cost you less
--Certainty, ibis/welters copies will emit less.
Lees by the 'mound those items width you hare ea-
ended ?—Exactly.
liVhat proportion dew the paper bear to the other ta-
pelike Mrs net always bear the same proportion; it
dept wda span the number shut are printrel; iu proportion
sr the number is increased, the proportion of the paper is
treater to the print.

Take SOO !—Generally speaking, it say be I wo.i birds of
the clinic.

ila. is the .1;1Tel/wiles. in 'anemic between what is tallyd
best paper and the medium priutirx paper?—Perham it it
dunhle tiaa price.

Then works printed upon median' paper, beim', only half
the price, will beer a prire to the purchaser. nut lie.6ap. in
the tame proportion, but will be reedy us cheep PC4ille In
the purchasers ?—Perhaps not as cheep imam ; She usual
mode is twit-ihirils,one.third trio; nut universally ,n.

Will art Ihine work' is ennrequestre of beiug sir much
cheaper, be mum generally soli: !--Ceriainly.

If the work •herefore is easeful, will it Hot coitilisee more
to the diffusion of literatore?—Certainly, that which eireu.
Imes the t.

Of late years, the cirenlatine libraries, and sithecription
libraries, in all parts of the kingdom, have very much in-
creased ?—They have.
Do you think that this custom has been injonious to the
trade of the bookeelless?-1 think the contrary.
How should you account for that?—lt tends to diffuse a
taste for reading ; having read a book, you hove a desire to
nooses* it. in massy eases; besides that, she numerous
civtic■ which exist, each taking a copy, creates a cousialrirabk
demand.

Although many persons have access to those librattenenad
therefore nerd nut purchase Ibuse works, ),I, upsw the
whole, the notoriety given to the works, induces a dememil,
which is ultimately an advsotage to the trade?-1 have sow
donbt of it.

Does it, sir not, also prevent other people from porches.
in;?—II 'inquest' bly prevents some twissons from pur-
chasing; 1>at uputs the It b9le, I ',humid suppose it iorreast•s
th► demand.

Has not t►e sale of honks, generally speaking, consider.
slily increased within the Istst lea yesrs it saltier de.
pressed at present ; but pouter not of finest' the tempo-
rary depress' . the sale has remiss!, increased: 1 should
doubt Is-twitter hem numbers are sold, hot there as a greater
variety of pit bbcatiuns.
Were silo concerned in some meetings which were field
between the booksellers sonar years are, to reference to a
Hilt ola:elt Mr. Villiers 401100 into Pa►liament tiros this
subject was present at those meetings.
As a principal bookseller, and a great porde:seer of copy
right. did 11111( you consider an estention is the term of
copes ight quite equivalent for tle• loss which they Mnnhl
snstani by the delively of the elesco copies?-1 dial mat
consider that.

that !entrails 111011011 ?—.l 110 1101 think it wear;
there were +nate iterwtn+ tit' that opinion.
Dora )I.llll' house deal largely in geryricht?—Year cer-
tainly.

Is there any other bowie that deals fro largely no ynnr a ?
That ii l hcult to on) ; I should marrow mine more MI.
WOlBlll eleven cop,es of those nooks on the Immo 00000 raper,
at the soling retail price, cost those Mims'—(inhering a list