Publishing Department by N. Z. Town

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 7, 1916

Publishing Department

By N. Z. Town

N. Z. Town . . . General Secretary W. W. Eastman . . . N. Am. Div. Secretary

Our Summary

We are greatly encouraged over the excellent summary which we are able to send out for July. Last year our July book report showed a falling off of nearly $29,000 from the corresponding month for 1914, while this year our report for this, the first month of the last half of the year, shows a gain over the corresponding month of 1915 of nearly $22,000. The same encouraging increase is seen in our magazine and periodical sales. The July report of last year showed a falling off of $48,000 over the previous year, while this year there is a gain of more than $11,000 over 1915.

Nine of the Union Conferences in North America have done better this year than during the same month last year, and the Northern Union has the distinction of sending in the largest monthly report ever received at the department office, their total book sales for the month being $28,583.73. It is encouraging to see that notwithstanding the unsettled conditions in so many countries on account of the war, there is no blank space for 1916 opposite any of our foreign fields.

Word has just come in from W. H. B. Miller, manager of the Australian publishing house, saying that during the year

ending June 30, 1916, the sales of that house amounted to $116,445, being an increase of about $11,000 over the previous year. Since January 1 the subscription list of the Australian Signs of the Times has increased from ten thousand to fourteen thousand copies.

We thank God for his protecting care, and for the faithful work which our colporteurs are doing, notwithstanding the apparent difficulties in many places. N. Z. Town.

Comparative Summary of Foreign Periodicals

January, 1915, 448,128 copies, value $13,166.23; January, 1916, 375,259 copies, value $13,774.74.

February, 1915, 403,134 copies, value $11,357.55; February, 1916, 577,282 copies, value $14,480.57.

March, 1915, 467,626 copies, value $18,243.92; March, 1916, 350,291 copies, value $35,029.10.

April, 1915, 418,884 copies, value $10,001.96; April, 1916, 365,373 copies, value $11,086.68.

May, 1915, 595,740 copies, value $18,200.94; May, 1916, 196,084 copies, value $6,803.98.

June, 1915, 215,051 copies, value $7,974.76; June, 1916, 349,164 copies, value $10,731.82.

July, 1915, 561,531 copies, value $11,627.60; July, 1916, 451,581 copies, value $12,985.33.

"The World's Crisis" in Foreign Tongues

Some time ago a notice appeared in the Review announcing the publication of "The World's Crisis" in Spanish, by our brethren in South America. They have already sold two ten-thousand editions of this little book in the Spanish language. Recently the General Conference Publishing Department has received copies of this book in the Dutch and French languages. The Dutch is published by the South African Union Conference, and the French by the Canadian Publishing Association, Oshawa, Canada. If any who read this have neighbors who speak Spanish, Dutch, or French, they will find that these are splendid little books with which to do missionary work among them. N. Z. Town.