Writing for the Trade Press (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Frank Farrington

9780331491593: Writing for the Trade Press (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331491591 ISBN 13: 9780331491593

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Writing for the Trade Press

In order that the magnitude of the trade press business of the country may not be underestimated, let me say that there are between seven and eight hundred so called trade papers in the United States, with a large additional number in Canada which are available as a market for the writer in either country.

The capital invested ln trade papers in this country has been estimated at not less than $50, 000, 000. There are several associations of trade papers and there is one large organiza tion called the Associated Business Papers which has as members many of the seven or eight hundred publica tions The number of employees connected with 250 selected papers is in the neighborhood of These 250 papers pay out for general expenses about a year.

One New York city publishing house owning its own plant and employing somes 900 pe0p1e is engaged solely in the trade paper business and has an annual pay roll amounting to nearly a million and a half dollars.

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