English Translation

6 - 2 - separate areas on their own feet. Above all the German book trade stood with the beginning of the Czechoslovak Republic before enormous tasks. According to nature his dependence on the Vienna cultural center had been greater than that of the czech, although today's ties with the empire had already existed before the war. A new situation arose already for the supply book trade, how much more only for the publishing house. Even today the Sudeten- deutschtum is suffering from this suddenly forced change. A powerful publishing system of its own can hardly develop, especially since the blood-like connection necessitates the collection of German cultural goods across the borders and thus does not allow sufficient economic efficiency for the domestic publishing house. Thus the conquest of the domestic book market is already encountering great difficulties; but how much more difficult it is to take significant influence from Sudeten-Germanism on the rich German book market.