#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 7, 2025 -

 June 6, 2025 and one hundred years ago on this day in 1925, The Outlook Magazine of London stated that Tarzan of the Apes has been published in 17 languages (ERB's count is over 20). Foreign royalties far exceeded those in America.

Publishing details and so much more about the novel, “Tarzan of the Apes,” may be viewed at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0483.html

The fictional drabble for today, “Follow the Money,” was inspired by the many countries where Tarzan of the Apes has been published and the many languages. Today, it’s a lot more than twenty.

Edgar Rice Burroughs talked to his publisher, A. L. McClurg. “I make about ten times as much on my foreign royalties as you pay me. I don’t know why I bother with you.”

“Ed, if your books weren’t published in America, foreign companies wouldn’t know about them and wouldn’t publish them.”

“I’m pretty sure that it’s your job to say that.”

“Ed, it’s my job, but I understand that it’s the truth.”

“Of course you believe it. . Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”