The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-16
MONEY REWARDS OF AUTHORS
q lRGE PROFITS Nor CONFINED
10 HODERN TIMES.
TarIsr-> D~V,vsss ~ scott, DSunas. Daeh.
~ and OsR~v~ Frsw Tseiv Sssss
~saaii Fiarassa- ~ ES=s= SsTss sss--
re,.e,- Pss nd nOs-ee ga CsaaFasted

ne profits of zIcce~-fui authorship
have not h..-u C"u;rC.i o. tb" last Ten or
nt',.n ,car- Scou r-Civsd his Es.oOO
tur a -ing.. ,"nm- at time when
ruonsy u emf rinrt further that az present
y hau disaster ,tHis frDm out-iCe specu-
ir'.on literary labor saved him: he earned
fcr be creditors nearly EtO.OpO betWeen
January Is-s. and January. Iscs
Tho older Dumas With has great name.
ths s,st"nt Nth mich he managed HE
small arutV nT clever C,illaborators. his
~tlirgna-e 10 =Ign a. many contracts
tcr roranc~- A. contained clauses for
advsr,r payment. - aid IN his heyday
49, have po~k eted ana squandered an
pu.ily ,sl aNi france. yet he Mss often
f't~ut ~ f'anC- ng ready money at hts
distc
sal.Ar r.ads enormous sums from the
novel, IT ibr -CHmeyiie Humsine. yet 90
'he ent he wAs weighted 18th debts. due
~ - ylrlcnary financial schemes In
re 80 90 Ihe last century Eugene
ere -, ~, 81 ioo"O france for the serial
Tg' = o., -Ir' Wandering Je~
10 'nud.rn,. Alphnn-e naulet
ta-rs! me Lac, ~ lI- hic ~ cn .nfnrt
I-.Hs lrls puj ~" tory of his literary
sa-1Irs. INTO It- r,.-Iisne at MtdaI.
t.l'.'rs ~ ddtiupu named tor and paid
T., ,a,.t -'l'-c.--f'Il work Flaubert Tor
'pna's' Inherited money. ~ he did not
W. u"' l'on he ~ r,iinE IN MAu-
CAs-aut asrn~d from 2s'sD to S0.OpO france
velr rot = great deal Sh-n oDe co0-
,l4s-. 'h. h.. ,ra- counted big seller
~. va 81 -at. 1T - OF three cents .
Seri f.. ~ SERIAL riglts
Dickens % he death left an estate
vpusi - loo n0f, though II. Was a man
~ sYt-aysgsnt hsli;s IN money Inati~rs.
O. - -acSornd thai hF ~ ned three times
t,z' I'm DUNG the ih'rty- I'D years 81
r. ~. ra-sF,il literary w"iS
'rn,uGh Thsck"riy newer coTnmanded
-, .hI-s 49,. Inc ~ sIey h,s contemporary
d. ha.,ng -, more than sixteen years
~ ,'~r i.,i -,.ccss,- he w. able a. live
- istuYr > NJ left ., MS chlsiren - ''st.Ii.
e9u'yl lart ~ ti.a NhiCh n" himself had
,rherts.t M squanoered m his younger
ds.- he 80, -, ~ only lDy giIn@as
stre.. Eov the .--ay- batter collected a.
80 CcundaoN'r o. D-rr. and ~ 40 for
-Hs-', smcnd
Whom Tonsn Doyle a practising ply
E.sar -lo's = study m SrATlst- the
F-xt ,r,r~iu~iic., ~ ~hprlp,k HOLMES
a -'orv - some 1sgpO words after p.,d-
6hrs ~ abnui irum publisher 90 publisher
b. .eslsi ~ selling u FOR 80. at the
t-ts II 3, "a fh"ussnd words IN his latest
v-p,k n received a. much single word
~ 80 formerly paid him for thu thou-
ssu@ getting - cents word for ths
N'rsr~sn -erIai rights alone SEVENTY
tAu'i-4rd pounds probably represents
the sum The Sherln~k Holmes books.
inEe'he~ With th" play. have brought
the Au'hor
rha greater part ~ the work ~ Rud-
va-c kiplng vas pro,lu~~d IN the davs
- h's ob-"uritv. when -ome of his finest
st~r4s wSu' begging for So apiece. and
although ne nov commands the highest
rs'ss - la's wears he has produced com
rarauvsiS bttle For the serial rights II
'E,rn ~ England and tins country he
r~-si' ~ Cj.W" He has accumulated a
comfortable r"r'un. and tHat - all
Thorlss Hardv an,! George Meredith do
roT NssI the - 1T FnRhsh fiction money
maker NJ HWnDhrv Nsrd profits
he bsoU arg" and ronstsnt Robert
lls'naTs va- rot money winner. ap-
Iear,ng l,sfurr thu. davE Of international
'-pv1eh, lHU probably not one II her
las' >s"eu &c "iGiit novels has returned
hsv loss than ShO.tsS
80 katherine tAc,l rhurstons The
NIas1uoradsr- c0HOH copies We're sold
~ 'his country alone. aud isss"d under
the ''lc ~ Iohn Ihilcoi". " p n ing
l.nd ~. 10. hronsh' ~ author ., another
Restr,c. Har-aden made no money
t-ou' hsr Er,-at -rI,re-s Ships That PaS-
N the Niah. Ehlch went tar into the
hlndred th"u-aud-. h'-"au~- n ths co'in-
trv there was NO copvrigh' and the English
vEhrs had teen ~oii outright by The
aIrhor for go
Nihsu, D~an Howell. hold Nc first
rank a. he dos.- has never had a great
ssls FOR any 81 Lis books Mark Twain.
or The other hand had highly remnera-
re InOou." until % with Scoit financial
disaster plunE.d him deem INTO debt
' Marion crawford ard I. IOpkinson
Sr,ith have both found their profession
highly rennunsfative.
FROM -RichArd CaTvcl- a. a book and
from mo ROYALTIES from tho play Winston
h'uchil rec~'v~d ~ er 500 80. and - The
Crlss Johnston" aud ny trewe-
sr~-- have not been tar behind pne
~ the most astonishing examples ~
r,roft when reviewed as price per word
y thai 81 Booth TarlungtOu's Monsieur
Bssuc t're which. totAlhng only about
"A 000 ~ords sold lo0.0O coi'e- ia the
cT1EiuaI "JitIon and J0OD, in a sur -equ-nt
rhsaJ-r lit or
Rshard Harding Davis j. estimated
So have made when hs vas an author
IN his books Roi,ert W Chambers.
Jamsz Lane Alien. Thomas Dixon, Alice
H@Rsn Rice aud Kate Douglas Wiggin
command a - per cent royalty. ~
aD.ii ~ cents fov each copy sold
Tn. sale ~ George Barr MCt ui"heon
novels m four y@n-~ amounted IN round
numl@rS 20 spTD copis-. HIs first
hocL -GTAu-tark reached -5ls ot
m GD. m. copyright the author had sold
olItTigh. for $50 lie made no more such
mistake 4 million copis'- ~ floren".
ror~.' Kingsley Titus are sad Ia have
been sold bIt he reviewed only 81 usD '"r
the story having written u Tor a pIIle
contest On.. Of tie conditions Icing that
eh~ winning author should relinquish all
tlAiU- to- royalty.
Ons comparative glance - Oi Interest
Poo v no died ia want wa glad 10 receive
s5 Till for one of the ipe~t Of his tales
r. Pre- dent Roo-sv-lt received an Oner
from me publts hing firm of slpJ.Wp
for n book about hi visit 20 Europe ami
another frm bid sjOVO fOT book on
sports and hunting
Concerning tho WTitlng ~ books a. an
tncorns producing yocafiOn " l. Interesting
g. learn from Clement shorter th. Eng
li-h conditions governing tn" punlica-
ton Of novel;. George Gt-sing admits that
hs received only an for the serial and
bock rights 81 me ~ hts finest novel;
~'n"s then thing Ina greatly improved.