p. 24 | A New Record in Literature Distribution by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 13, 1908

A New Record in Literature Distribution

By Editor

A NEW RECORD will doubtless be established this summer in the distribution of our literature. No commercial work of any kind is being done in the Review and Herald Office, yet its facilities are being taxed to the utmost to meet the demand for our denominational literature. During the month of July, the retail value of books, tracts, pamphlets, and periodicals sent out from this office was almost exactly $30,000,—an average of more than $1,000 a day for every working-day. During the week ending July 31, more than five thousand books were bound in our bindery, the average being eight hundred fifty books a day. This was in addition to the handling of the fifty thousand periodicals which are sent out every week. The edition of Life and Health for August is fifty-five thousand copies. More orders of one thousand copies each have been received for this number than for any previous issue of the magazine. The facts given in this paragraph bear strong testimony to the faithful work being done by those who are selling our publications in the field.