Why Not Be a Socialist Publisher? Twenty-five hundred Socialist publishers, each with an invested capital of just ten dollars, are doing business together under the name of Charles H. Kerr & Company. We own the electrotype plates and the copyrights of nearly all the really important Socialist books. We have lately moved to a new, attractive and convenient building, and we are making new arrangements by which our co-operators have access to a much larger variety of books than ever before. Stockholders Buy Books at Cost. We do not attempt to pay dividends. Any possible dividend on so small a sum as $10.00 would be hardly worth while, apart from the fact that we are all trying as best we can to abolish the whole system of dividends and profits. So our method of publishing is to sell our books to our own stockholders, either for their own use or to sell to their neighbors and shopmates. We have found from long experience that a discount of forty per cent from the retail prices of our books, we to prepay postage or expressage, will just about cover the cost of the books and of the unavoidable expenses of distribution. Hereafter this will be the discount to all our stockholders. In other words, we will mail stockholders any of our 10c books at 6c each, 15c books at 9c, 25c books at 15c, 50c books at 30c, $1.00 books at 60c, $1.50 books at 90c, $2.00 books at $1.20, etc. The only better discount we offer is when $10.00 or more is sent at one time for books to go in one package, in which case we send them by express prepaid for HALF the retail prices. Books of Other Publishers. Hereafter we shall be able to offer an increasing number of books of other publishers to our stockholders at a discount, some at 40 per cent (this, of course, is possible only when we buy on exceptional terms), others at 20 per cent. Frequent announcements of new books will be sent to all our stockholders who are interested in them, and each stockholder should therefore keep us informed of his correct address. A Dollar a Month for ten months makes you a stockholder. While making monthly payments you can have discounts just the same as if your share were paid for. When you send your last payment you get a certificate showing that you are part owner in the publishing house. If you send the full $10.00 at one time, along with an order for books, we will include one $1.00 book free. The Big Reason why twenty-five hundred Socialists have subscribed for stock in this publishing house, and why you should do the same, is not the saving on the price of books. It is that you are in this way insuring the continuance and growth of the greatest educational force in the United States in the interest of the revolutionary working class. The battle with Capitalism will be long and hard. No matter how clearly you may see the need of working-class solidarity and a working-class revolution, you will remain a slave until an immense number of other workers see what you see. To make them see it is the work of this publishing house. Are you with us? CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY, STOCK SUBSCRIPTION BLANK 341-349 East Ohio Street, Chicago. COMRADES:-Enclosed find $1.00 as first payment on one share of stock in your corporation, value $10.00. I agree to pay the balance in nine monthly installments of $1.00 each. It is understood that while making these payments I shall have the privilege of buying books at the same discount allowed paid-up stockholders, and that when the full sum of $10.00 has been paid, I shall receive a certificate fully-paid and non-assessable. |