The price at which they have been sold is $5, giving
125,000

Difference
$500,000


Of "Jane Eyre" there have been sold 80,000, and if the price had been
similar to that of "Fanny Fern," they would have cost the consumers.


$100,000

They have cost about
25,000

Difference
$75,000


Total result of a "few cents" on five books, $1,950,000

Under the system of international copyright, one of two things must be
done--either the people _must_ be taxed in the whole of this amount for
the benefit of the various persons, abroad and at home, who are now to be
invested with the monopoly power, or they must largely diminish their
purchases of literary food.

The quantity of books above given cannot be regarded as more than one