Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-08-28
TIE AMERICAN BOOK COM
PANY.


a sIocll company made up Of the
school book elements OF the houses
ut lvison, Brakeman x Co. A. :.
Barnes y Co, d Appleton & Co.
and Van Antwerp, Bragg & %
The first three bonses merely ais
continued their school publications.
and took stock To the value Of The
Same ia the new company The last
mouse was exclusively engaged IN
publishing school boots.
These four houses that gave IN
this ieaiufe OF their business had
perhaps a greatsr share ct school
book trade ia the South ,han all
other houses hnt had won il purely
7u account Of The superior merit Of
their Publications.. scl.oai books
are not the authorship Of The pub
lishers, bur 0i einiaert feacnesa and
professors, aud iIlt6ese houses were
fortunate IN securing the bsst .nan,i-
script and III obiaining tor them au
exte,tive use, II should not excite
iGGenvy aud Jealousy OF other lees
fortunate cohuerns And If they
saw iit 10 unite iheir interests for
their own and the good OF lhe 9nb
l'ic,li vas their legal right to do so.
They have fnrmeo ere single uun1
pany aud not a combination al cora
fanics as Is the case With Trusts.
The fact that the american Book
Company IS composed of certain
element OF The business of four hou-
-es. completely segregated, AS clearly
as # sold out or dropped out Of the
commercial world so far rs the orig.
lnai ilrms are concerned us firms,
does not make il Il trust or combine.
any more than 1.-The J. B. Lippincott
Company, the University Publish
ing Company or the Standard Book
Company" Ifthe American Book
Company is a Trust, then the others
are.
The assertion that the American
Book Company is Trust, organ.
'zed to crush out all others and
raise prices is false, and mort of the
employees OF competing houses
know it Is SO when they make it.
II is all done to avail themselves ot
public sentiment against Trusts to
hiring their meritless publications to
The. surfsce by Dragging others
Gown. A schoo! hook Trust il one
OF the impossibiliiies Of this age. To
be q Trust it must own all The scheos
book COPY rights, all the printing
houses, all the type foundries, and
all the auihosr, and all the uowspa.
per presses in The land.
A Sunday paper IN one Of Our
great c''ies, IA sci up stereolyped
and l60 600 copies issued By three
O'Clock N the mornirg aud read an
hundred miles away by early break
fast This contains moro matter
,nan an ontlre set Of school readers.
How can corner on schnol books
sAver he created IN q country with
Ysuch printing facilities.
/ The statement that the American
Book Company controles 80 per
cont. Of All the school books IN lhIs
/ country, = also false. The edaca-
tienal edition Of the Publishers
Weekly Tor 1890 gives u llst of 1900
'exl books published in the United
States, Of these only 2lo0 are pub
lished by the American Book Com
panY. The same authority gives
! the number Of school book puhllsh-
crs at 81, So the American Book
COMPANY has actually ninety three
+, et mpctltors. And yet il il accused
| OF being y monopoly:
+ II is human nature, hui never.he'
! less queer, how college professors.
Eschonl presidents, and Others in
! high and lacra,ive official postum,
ihaving failed 10 secare labs with
the a Ameriuan Book Company should
now be on tNV other siae, aua for
| the want Of merit ii the BOOKS they
represent, should Try u sarusIseir
ee'nmissiors bv abuse. sad slander.
\ The writer denies that tho Anaurs-
! can Book Company is y Trust ana
no man who makes the assertion II
able 70 Prove h, gVS2 css