Show publishers SELLERS HAVE MADE HIS MONEY sold in four years half a million volumes of his books now york may 21 at the annual dinner of the american book sellers association mark twain in his usual white flannel suit told how well his books had sold since they had passed from subscription agents into the hands of the book sellers for ag years my books were sold by subscription he said the books passed into the hands 0 my present publishers in 1904 and then you became the providers of my diet I 1 think I 1 may say without flattering you that you have done exceedingly well by me by the terms of my contract my publishers had to account to me for fifty thousand volumes per year for five years and pay me for them whether they sold them or not it Is as I 1 point that you gentlemen come in for it was your business to unload the on the public in five years if you possibly could have you succeeded yes you have and more for in four years a year still to spare you have sold the volumes and besides the story teller then said he was building a farm house with the proceeds where he intends to take a vacation for thirty or forty years before completing the five books he Is now engaged on |