p. 32 | Growth in Book and Periodical Business

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Apr 1, 1909

Growth in Book and Periodical Business

A COMPARATIVE statement of the book and periodical business of this office shows that the business transacted during January and February, 1909, was greater than during the same months of any year since 1904. The recent growth in the subscription-book business is very marked. In the Atlantic Union Conference the gain in shipments of subscription books during January and February, 1909, over the same months in 1908 was forty-nine per cent; in the Columbia Union Conference, one hundred per cent; in the Lake Union Conference, eighty-three per cent. The orders taken in the Columbia Union Conference during the months of January and February, as reported by the agents, shows a gain over the same period in the same territory in 1908 of three hundred forty per cent. Orders have now been placed by our book department for editions of seven different books, aggregating eighty-two thousand copies, and requiring over one and a half million impressions in printing. Inasmuch as January and February are usually the slack months of the year, the facts here stated will give some intimation of what our summer business is likely to be.