\brief{Rudolf Carnap an C.K. Ogden, 18 Mai 1934}{Mai 1934}

%May, 18, 1934.

\anrede{Dear Mr. \textit{Ogden},}

\haupttext{thank you for your kind letters of April\,25 and May\,10.

1. I have received the 6 copies of ``\uline{Unity of Science}``\IC{\unityofscience}. I thank you very much. I think the little book looks
very well. Let us hope that it will have a good sale.

2. ``\uline{Logical Syntax}``\IC{\logischesyntaxenglisch}. The matter with Springer\IN{\springerjulius} is now almost quite clear. First he really made some
difficulties, but now he concedes that I am in possession of the translation rights of my book\IC{\logischesyntax} and that I am therefore
entitled to make the agreement with you. But he has two ``urgent wishes``: 1. that the English edition should not be
cheaper than the German original, and 2. that the English edition should not appear earlier than one year after the
German original. The reasons for these wishes are, that the selling of the German book\IC{\logischesyntax} would be too much injured by a
cheaper and too early English edition. I promised Springer\IN{\springerjulius} to write you these wishes. But concerning the first I must
confess that I am in doubt whether you would do well to fix the price of the English edition as high as the price of the
German will be. The latter is not yet fixed; but Springer\IN{\springerjulius} has usually rather high prices; and he wrote me, that the price
will probably be about RM 20,-- . I hope you will make the book\IC{\logischesyntaxenglisch} cheaper, in spite of the additions. Concerning the second
wish I am still in correspondence with Springer\IN{\springerjulius}. Perhaps I shall make the agreement with you in such a way, that the
English edition shall not appear earlier than a certain date to be fixed later. Now I proposed to Springer\IN{\springerjulius} to fix April\,1, 1935, as this date. As soon as I come to an understanding with him about this last item also I will write you. I
suppose you will not be against fixing the date of appearance in this manner.

The printing of the book\IC{\logischesyntax} is now finished with exception of the indices at the end. I hope it will appear
already this month.

I would like to make you a new proposal concerning the \uline{fee}. You proposed \textsterling{}\,15. In the meantime I have
learned that the usual payments for translation rights are about RM 30,-- per sheet (16 pages); that would be about RM
600,-- for the whole. That is nearly three times the amount you proposed. But I understand very well that the
Orthological Institute\II{\orthologicalinstitute} is not able to give a higher fee, because of the general risk. Now I would agree to not receiving
payment in the moment of the appearance of the book\IC{\logischesyntaxenglisch} and to take part in the risk, provided that I shall take part also in
the profit if there should be any. Therefore I would like to propose that I should get nothing at the time of publication
but later every year a payment in proportion to the number \neueseite{} of books sold, i.\,e. a percentage to be fixed on every copy
sold (perhaps 8\,\% of the selling price?). What would you think about this proposal?

3. \uline{London Lectures}\IC{\londonervortraege}. I have not yet made any decision about the details. I think the titles will be: Philosophy
and Logical Syntax. -- 1. Metaphysics and Logical Analysis. -- 2. Logical Syntax. -- 3. Philosophy is Logical Syntax. --
If further details are needed, please let me know.}

\grussformel{Sincerely yours\\
\blockade{ksl.}}

\ebericht{Brief, msl. Dsl., 2 Seiten, \href{https://doi.org/10.48666/871562}{RC 081-13-04}; Briefkopf: msl. \original{May, 18, 1934}.}
