单词 | at scrip |
释义 | > as lemmasat scrip 2. Publishing. A trade price 25% below the published price. Frequently in at scrip. Now historical and rare.This was originally the price at which books were sold by the publisher to booksellers who subscribed for them; it was later regarded as an unfavourable rate, the ordinary trade rate being known as sale (sale n.2 1d). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > wholesale or cost price > trade price > in book trade scrip1877 sale1900 1877 Bookseller 2 May 414/1 Low priced books, retailed at scrip, by aid of ‘sale’ prices and odd copies, yield about fifteen per cent. gross profit. 1897 Publishers' Circular 3 July 8/2 Those dealers who refuse to come into the arrangement..should be supplied at no better terms than scrip. 1906 Successful Bookseller ix. 59 You must buy by the dozen when you get 13, sometimes at ‘Scrip,’ sometimes at ‘Sale’. 1970 R. J. L. Kingsford Publishers Assoc. iv. 59 That Committee proposed that publishers should meet their increased costs on educational books..by supplying non-net books to the trade at ‘scrip’. < as lemmas |
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