just wondering...if less adult food is also coming out...
are the wts publishing smaller and less books now than say ten years ago ?
by mP 23 Replies latest jw friends
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Well, the books are cheap paperbacks compared to the hefty hardbound books of yesteryear. Back in the 70s there would be a couple of books at each DC. Now it's more brochures and usually one book.
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factfinder
The books are paperback books now, but high quality and more colorful.
They produced very nice hardcovered, burst bound books in the 80's, which I prefer. But the paperback books are attractive. (Unfortunatly the information inside is not, for the most part.)
As for production they now print over 100 million Bibles and books each year which averages 400,000 each workday.
The Wallkill printery alone is producing 100,000 books per day and Germany does nearly as much.
As for new books in English, they came out with more new books in English in the 70's and 80's then they do now.
But they print in many more languages now as well.
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WTWizard
In addition to fewer and smaller books, they are producing wimpier ones. Back in the 1980s, they had rubbish that was at least something to think about. Rubbish, still, but at least "original rubbish". Now it's rubbish that is totally stupid and recycled from the rubbish they put out in the 1980s.
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designs
The hay-day for books was during Fred Franz's tenure, the guy had a lot to say.
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factfinder
The books they came out with in the 50's-early 80's were much more interesting than what is published nowadays.
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St George of England
Can you ever imagine them undertaking the 'INSIGHT' books or 'PROCLAIMERS' now?
I think those days are long gone.
George
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Disillusioned Lost-Lamb
Smaller, wimpier, less frequent and lower quality.
Most of the new publications fall apart after just a little use. Maybe they're finally planning obsolescence so they don't print the litter-a-turd to last; they figure by the time you study it, it will be old "light".
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thetrueone
The majority of the WTS. books have gone out of print and distribution, mostly out of the fact that they contained
a plethora of bullshit and misinformational trite.
The BS this religious publishing house puts out has a very short viable shelf life.
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factfinder
I was hoping they would update the Proclaimers book since it only goes up to 1992, but I doubt that will happen.
And each year I hope they will feature the United States in the YB " Acts of JWs in Modern Times "as they keep giving up dated histories of the other countries, wheras the USA has not been updated since the 1974 report in the 75 YB.
But they never do.
Too much to hide I wonder?
This new GB sucks.