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Hartford Apl. 16/81.
Dear Madam—
If you had already published a book by subscription, & could tell me the number of copies sold, I would then know what to say. (I say by subscription because books published in “the trade” would not be of use as evidence.)
In the absence of such data, I can only advise you to take a royalty—not less than 5 per cent of retail price of the book—& of course as much more as the publisher will pay.
When books are sold outright to publishers, somebody always gets hurt. It is not usually the publisher.
Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens
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