The
English Author Should Feel That He Writes For The Widest Circle Of
Readers Ever Yet Obtained By The Literature Of Any Country.
He
provides not only for his own country and for the States, but for
the readers who are rising by millions in the British colonies.
Canada is supplied chiefly from the presses of Boston, New York, and
Philadelphia, but she is supplied with the works of the mother
country.
India, as I take it, gets all her books direct from
London, as do the West Indies. Whether or no the Australian
colonies have as yet learned to reprint our books I have never
learned, but I presume that they cannot do so as cheaply as they can
import them. London with us, and the three cities which I have
named on the other side of the Atlantic, are the places at which
this literature is manufactured; but the demand in the Western
hemisphere is becoming more brisk than that which the Old World
creates. There are, I have no doubt, more books printed in London
than in all America put together. A greater extent of letter-press
is put up in London than in the three publishing cities of the
States; but the number of copies issued by the American publishers
is so much greater than those which ours put forth that the greater
bulk of literature is with them. If this be so, the demand with
them is of course greater than it is with us.
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