English Books in Canada
SIR,-1 contend that English publishers and their agents in Toronto are charging too much in Canada for books printed in England. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. sell Smart's The Origin of the Earth for 12s. 6d. in England and $2.75-in Toronto. At -the current rate of exchange -of $3.00 to the El (and the pound is even a bit lower than this) $2.75 in Canada equals 18s. 4d. in England—an increase of nearly 6s. Also Chambers sells.Chatrobers' Sixty Logarithm Tables for 12s. 6c1. in England, and when I ordered a copy here I was met with a price of $3.25, 4which, is the equivalent of 1 ls. 8d. No one could object to paying something for postage and packing, but I -contend that increases like the above are rapacious. I am told by my bookseller that the Canadian prices are agreed on by, the English publishers and their Toronto agents, and I am afraid this will not promote the sale of Englishbooks.—Yours truly,
Department of Physics, University of Toronto. JOHN SATTERLY.
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