[Milton-L] Milton in The Watchtower

[Carrol Cox]

Patrick Scott wrote:
> 
> 
> I am also reminded of an axiom in book history, the Pontifex Factor
> [after Ernest Pontifex's grandfather, the religious publisher in The Way
> of All Flesh]: "You sell more of a book to be given away than you do of
> a book to be read."

Ho Chi Minh disagreed. Publishing a resistance paper in Vietnam in the
late 1930s, he rejected suggestions to make it free because, he claimed,
people would not read seriously a paper given away.

Carrol