Writing from Wellington to the London Publishers’ Circle, A Now Zealander” makes some suggestions for English publishers. Here is one extract from his letter : low is i that you English people are letting the Americans capture such 01 big market here for their faction? Every New Zealand book-shop you go to has piles of American novels, borne of it is really clever stuff, and others the veriest trash. I. think much of the Yankee’s success is clue to the attractiveness of his covers, and the fact, too, that his outside wrapper is' generally illustrated, and thus the book makes an .attractive appearance m sho" windows.” The same writer continues: .“New Zealanders ram great book-buying' people. Wellington, with some 60,000 inhabitants, can boast of “15 really decent bookshops; three -at least : are . worthy of ; a city three times the size.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2416, 3 February 1909, Page 5
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