But in what is this manifested?
In the cheap price of books.

For the good of whom?
For the good of the consumer--of society--of humanity.

Printers, having no longer any peculiar merit, receive no longer a peculiar remuneration.

As men--as consumers--they no doubt participate in the advantages which the invention confers upon the community; but that is all.

As printers, as producers, they are placed upon the ordinary footing of all other producers.