English Translation

49 -45 - confessions. Gradually, he expanded his publishing area more and more. Today, in addition to the school books for all types of school, he also publishes journals, youth books and writings for general education. Among the latter, there are even musical papers. But the publishing house went even further beyond its borders: it also publishes notebooks, i.e. things that actually do not listen to a book publishing house at all. However, the publishing company is not the only publishing house in the hands of the state. Almost all ministries and state offices publish books on their own initiative, an activity which cannot be reconciled with the committees of these institutions. Above all, it was the Ministry of Agriculture which concentrated all the textbooks for the agricultural schools in its publishing house, so that a complete monopoly arose here. However, the Ministry sold these books (for agricultural textbooks) to the Czechoslovak Agricultural Academy in the year 1 928. These books are delivered to schools for direct orders with an addition of 4/3, i.e. with a 25% discount, while only a 2 % commission is granted to the assortment. We see, therefore, that the state is part of the