N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1922, Volume 1 Page: 9
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Of the fifteen or sixteen thousand newspapers whose publishers felt sufficient interest
in their correct representation to return their proof slips, many were found to have changed
in size, price, issue, name, politics or ownership. Our rule is to make no changes upon
hearsay. We receive every year many thousands of communications relating to newspapers,
in the shape of clippings, correspondence and voluntary items of information from other
sources. Every one, unless coming directly from the paper concerned, is verified before the
information is used for the new ANNUAL. The towns also contain many changes in description.
An actual count of the changes made upon a number of pages, picked at random,
leads us to estimate the total number of separate changes in the catalogue and the lists each
year to be at least 75,000.
This summary of the changes made in a single year instances the truth of the statement
of the late George P. Rowell, the first publisher of a newspaper directory, when he
declared that a last year's newspaper directory had about as much value as a cancelled
postage stamp.
The lists, which occupy 145 pages and classify 332 different kinds of publications,
covering almost every field of human effort, are made up each year from the final proofs
of the new ANNUAL. They include papers published in 42 different foreign languages.
The work of making a new ANNUAL each year calls for a large outlay for postage.
The postal matter used in the preparation of each new ANNUAL includes, together
with stamped envelopes, over 70,000 postage stamps, also five thousand stamped
wrappers, 6,000 double postal cards, about 2,000 Canadian stamps and sundry West Indian,
Cuban and other stamps. These stamps and cards are used solely for the work of revision,
and do not include any of those used in selling or advertising the ANNUAL, that being a
matter entirely outside the province of the department having charge of the editorial work
on the book.
We have given much time, thought, effort and cash to the preparation of the 1922
ANNUAL AND DIRECTORY. We do so every year. We have tried to avoid errors of every
kind, but in the listing of 22,353 newspapers, with ten separate and distinct items of
information about each one; and of 10,780 towns with a dozen or more particulars of
each, and in the making up of three hundred and thirty-two lists of different classes of
periodicals; it would be a marvel indeed if every one of the half million distinct pieces of
information should be absolutely correct. We shall consider it a favor to be informed
of any error that exists and a duty and a pleasure to make the necessary correction in the
next ANNUAL.
We bespeak from our friends an appreciation of the merits of the book and a frank
and friendly criticism of what they may consider its faults.
N. W. AYER & SON,
Publishers.1922
HOWV THIS DIRECTORY IS MADEE
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