Literature Sales During 1913 by N. Z. T.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 24, 1914

Literature Sales During 1913

By N. Z. T.

We regret that we are so late in publishing our annual summary of literature sales for last year, but owing to the two secretaries' being absent from the office during the most of the year, this delay has seemed unavoidable. The grand totals do not show so great an increase over 1912 as we had hoped, but there is a reason for this. Unintentionally we have in the past duplicated some figures of sales between our large publishing houses here in this country. This year these duplications were discovered and eliminated, and as a result the summary is over $150,000 less than it otherwise would be. However, notwithstanding this correction, the report still shows a gain of $36,000 over 1912.

The following figures show the encouraging progress that this branch of the work has made since it began. We give the figures by decades during the first sixty years, and then the yearly sales.

Sales From 1845 to 1904

1845-54 ....................$ 2,500 1855-64 .................... 17,500 1865-74 .................... 73,000 1875-84 .................... 371,000 1885-94 .................... 3,069,000 1895-1904 .................. 3,144,000 Total for 60 years ....$7,577,000

Yearly Sales From 1905 to 1913

1905 ......................$ 548,000 1906 ....................... 824,000 1907 ..................... 1,035,500 1908 ..................... 1,290,000 1909 ..................... 1,402,400 1910 ..................... 1,560,500 1911 ..................... 1,627,600 1912 ..................... 1,836,500 1913 ..................... 1,869,700 Total for 9 years....$11,994,200

These figures show that during the last nine years the literature sales of the denomination have been over fifty per cent more than during the previous sixty years. If we reach the two-million mark during 1914, as we hope to do, our sales during the last decade will be almost double what they were during the previous six decades.

It may be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW to see the amount of yearly sales from some of our leading publishing houses:—

Review and Herald ........$ 454,251 Pacific Press .............. 398,446 Southern Publishing Assn.... 209,974 International Publishing Assn. 36,693 Total ....................$1,099,364

Outside of North America the sales of some of the principal publishing houses are as follows:—

Hamburg ..................$281,954 Australia .................. 121,087 Great Britain .............. 70,019 Christiania ................ 61,203 Stockholm ................. 29,118 Latin Publishing House.... 36,647

Let us rejoice and take courage over this splendid progress. N. Z. T.