THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1657, sig. 109-4/1412

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47 - 43 - also extended to the provincial book trade, but special arrangements can be made in each city, which must be notified to the enforcement committee of the "Svaz" up to 31 May of each year. If no agreement is reached, the agreements of the Prague school book sellers apply. Overruns are punished by the fact that the bookseller concerned is hired by the publisher on the order of the "Svaz". In the German school book trade, this joint advertising work is only carried out in individual cities, such as in Reichenberg, where printed school books are jointly published. Similar to this poor-booking system, the sale of old textbooks by the pupils is also to be considered, which carries the same dangers in itself, but is more difficult to fight.