Book lottery
A book lottery is a form of distribution for books . It is a lottery where the prizes are books.
Such a lottery was first run in 1661 by the London publisher John Ogilby . This form of distribution was popular in the 18th century and was mainly used to get rid of remaining editions or unavailable titles. The publisher incurred effort (apart from the goods to be raffled) mainly due to the mostly considerable costs for the lottery license. In 1801 , the publisher Friedrich Justin Bertuch paid 200 thalers for a lottery license.
A well-known organizer of such a lottery was Johann Heinrich Zedler, who ran into financial difficulties when he published his “ Great Complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts ” .
literature
- Franz S. Pelgen (Ed.): Book lotteries of the 18th century. Fröhlich, Roßdorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-938397-05-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katharina Middell: The Bertuchs must have luck everywhere in this world: the publisher Friedrich Justin Bertuch and his Landes-Industrie-Comptoir around 1800. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-936522-17-0 , pp. 190f