中国有个怪事,出在出版事业。一方面报纸不断宣传当年出版了万千种图书,比何年增加了多少多少,似乎出版事业是一派繁荣景象。但是你如果听听作家的意见,则是一肚皮牢骚,不是某出版社因为征订不到起印数,原稿打入冷宫不能付印;就是出版社出了书却无处推销。不但不付稿费,而且还要作者的稿费抵作印刷费,或是给你几千本书,由你作者自己推销,因此就发生大学教授推着三轮车在长街叫卖的现象。中国的书店是垄断书籍销路的。一书出版事前要经过书店的征订,向出版社提出印数,才 There is a weird thing in China, out of publishing. On the one hand, the newspapers have been constantly promoting the publication of more than a thousand kinds of books that year, more or less than what they added. It seems that the publishing industry is a prosperous one. But if you listen to the opinions of writers, it is a belly grudge, not a publishing house because the book is not imprinted, the original can not be printed into the cold palace; is the publisher out of the book but nowhere to sell. Not only do not pay manuscripts, but also the author’s royalties offset the printing fee, or give you thousands of books, by your own authors to sell, it was the University professor pushing the tricycle in the street selling phenomenon. China’s bookstore is a monopoly book sales. A book before bookstore subscription through bookstores to the press, only