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Pulping books
London, 18 November (NNA) - The British-based publisher, Rudolf Steiner Press (RSP), has denied allegations that it plans to pulp its excess stock of old books. In a statement, RSP rejected “inaccurate, misleading and sensational reports” which had recently appeared in a number of publications. “Despite contrary reports, we have no intention of pulping 40,000 books,” the statement added. RSP currently has an excess of approximately 38,000 books, many of which have been in stock for as long as 30 years and which in many instances are of insufficient quality to sell well or which have been overproduced. RSP's managing editor, Sevak Gulbekian, said that a first attempt to reduce the stock had been made by offering the books at a large discount to bookshops specialising in anthroposophy. The next step was to offer them to remainder bookshops, and any left after that would be offered to anthroposophical libraries and for distribution in the Third World. Even then, 15 years' stock would be kept to ensure that demand for any of the books could be met for the foreseeable future. Pulping would only be considered once all other avenues had been explored. “I would rather not do that,” Gulbekian said, “ideally I would like to sell them.” The problem for the Press is that warehousing is expensive. With more than 100 years' worth of stock for over half the books (for some of them there is even sufficient stock to last 1000 years), RSP is spending resources on keeping the excess books sitting in a warehouse instead of such resources being used to produce new publications for sale. “In order to do this properly, we should not be weighed down by mistakes made in the past. An efficient and affordable warehousing system and stock level is absolutely necessary for the future,” the statement said. The statement concludes with the appeal: “It is imperative for us - if we are to continue the task of publishing [Rudolf] Steiner effectively - to sell our books at the true price. The retail price is already subsidised to the reader through the fact that we are not properly staffed as an organisation. Any further decline in revenue, therefore, will mean a decline in the quality of our books and a reduced publication programme.” ENDS Copyright 1998 News Network Anthroposophy Limited. All rights reserved. See http://www.nna-news.org/copyright/ More NNA reports at: http://www.nna-news.org/ 1999 Weleda Calendar
Schwäbisch Gmünd, 18 November (NNA) - The new 1999 Weleda calendar is now available. Its subject for the coming year is the calendula flower, whose life-cycle over the year has been photographed by the pharmacist and photographer Christina Kiehs-Glos. Kiehs-Glos has sought to depict this medicinal plant both from a scientific and an artistic perspective: “Photography offers me the opportunity to observe and reproduce morphological and physiological processes in plant growth with scientific exactitude,” she said. ENDS Copyright 1998 News Network Anthroposophy Limited. All rights reserved. See http://www.nna-news.org/copyright/ More NNA reports at: http://www.nna-news.org/ |
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