Public lending right
Sir: Your editorial admits the justice of the claim for Public Lending Right, then denigrates it by a petty sneer (February 2). The point is not that it may further enrich Dame Agatha or the Widow Fleming, but that writers are entitled to their just deserts, and many people in the book trade have spent many years evolving a fair way to this end. As for your further sneer, that publishers are not known for their charity, I might add, Sir, that while your journal is .not well known for generosity or charity to its writers, most publishers advance Money to their authors. Even a small firm such as ours has invested many thousands of pounds in books not only as yet unpublished but often unwritten,
Desmond Briggs Blond & Briggs Ltd., 56 Doughty Street, London WC1
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