011bt miiit kind of arrangements did you ordinarily have 

 with people, aside from those who paid for 

 publishing? Did you give them advances? Did you 

 coimnlsslon then to write books? 



Cogglnsj Ho, we didn't coimnlsslon them* They were glad 

 to ge ahead anyhow* In faet, most of the 

 manuscripts offered were complete when we got 

 them* 



011b s And you dldn*t pay them any advance sums? 



Cogglns: No, we Just paid them royalties as they sold* 



Ollb: What was the normal royalty? 



Cogglns t XOjim 



011bf A few of then earned quite a bit from that, but 

 not many, I gather* 



Cogglns s Well, some of them did pretty well* Miss Power 

 did pretty well with her Poems for Memorizing * 

 Dr* Hoag sold very well* I got pretty good royalty 

 out of Theodore Roosevelt's book because I bought 

 the plates for that myself* 



dllbt Did you ever have any trouble or controversies 

 with any of your writers? 



Cogglns: No, because I guess we didn't have writers who 

 could afford to be controversial* Well, 

 J'oaquln was so&e times a little unmanageable* In 



