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Show Ageats Declining1 Ho - Handle Grant's Book. There is some trouble between the publishers of Grant's book and their agents. In one case a large agency has been thrown up. The delay in the publication pub-lication of the book has brought about some Berious complications which may considerably reduce the sum which it was expected the estate would derive from the work. The first volume is to be out in December and the second in March following. Tho delay is a long one, and it would be very difficult to sustain sus-tain the public interest "in any book for that length of time. Another important factor has been the price of the Grant book to agents. As a usual thing the general agents of a subscription book get a discount of from 60 to 70 per cent., generally gen-erally the latter. They in turn give individual in-dividual agents about 35 per -cent. In the case of the Grant Memoiri, the general agents receive 40 per cent, and only 25 per cent, is allowed individual agents. The difference is sufficiently large to prevent pre-vent any active bidding by agents and this, combined with the delay, has made the sale drag. |