BOOK PRICES
’ Sir-In your issue of December 10 you spend two pages on Book Reviews. I should think you do so because you wish to help us to choose the best among the new books, a most commendable intention. In this issue you praise Rewi Alley and at the end you mention that all profits will be devoted to the Sandan Training School. Apparently you wish to encourage the sale of this book, Then why don’t you give the price and say where it can be bought? You say Caxton Press. Is that London or New Zealand? I know you never give the price and it’s most exasperating. Over and over again I have had your reviews and thought, "I'd like to get that, but where can I get it, and what is the price?" and so for want of that one line of information your review was wasted and I did nothing. I get other magazines and they always give the price of any book they review: the English Listener and the Manchester Guardian, for instance, always do. Why can’t you? Please let me know where I can get Gung Hod and the price. I have a great respect for Rewi Alley, I am proud of him as you may ses when I tell you that I once sent him £50, so I am determined to get that book and you may guess how annoyed I am having to dig price and where to buy out of you when both of these ought to have been included in your review. Your magazine is really good, and I like it very much, so I am astonished that a want like this should still be found in its pages.
THOS
TODD
(Gisborne)_
We agree that prices should be given when they are available, and that is usually the case with books published in New Zealand. But far more than half the books we receive come to us from overseas publishers, whose ptices are so far below the prices at which these books must be sold in New Zealand that it is a doubtful. service to readers to supply them. The best way of obtaining a book is to order it from a reputable book-seller.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 497, 31 December 1948, Page 5
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373BOOK PRICES New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 497, 31 December 1948, Page 5
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