1. Discounts. Branch stores will receive the full discounts offered to the Cultural
Book Society by the original publishers’ outlets.
2. Shipping costs. To be assumed by the branch stores.
3. Handling fee. To be assumed by the branch stores (handling fee of 4 cents on
each yuan).
4. Payment. Purchases shall be prepaid before they will be shipped. In special
cases, a request may be made by a person this Book Society fully trusts to act as
guarantor to the Book Society, to pay one-half the purchase price before delivery,
accounts to be settled in full each month.
5. Book orders. The branch stores will investigate and determine what kinds of
books, papers, and magazines are needed in their localities, and then select the
books, magazines, and newspapers they need from the Book Society catalog.
Branch store orders will be mailed out the same day that they are received at
the Book Society.
6. Newspaper subscriptions. The branch stores may sell subscriptions to the Shanghai Minguo ribao (Republican Daily) and Shishi xinbao (China Times), the Beijing Chenbao (Morning Post), and the Hunan Tongsubao (Popular Daily). For ten
or more copies of one newspaper, the Book Society will arrange with the newspaper publisher to have the newspapers shipped directly to the branch store.
7. Book returns. The branch offices are entitled to return, within one and a half
months, books and magazines that have been received but cannot be sold. However, soiled or damaged books are not returnable; nor are magazines and newspapers. Branch stores are responsible for the cost of shipping returned books.