BBT International Book Sales up or Down?

BY: KRSNA DASA

Mar 1, CANADA (SUN) — The recent GBC report about a 28% increase in BBT book sales seems to be an attempt to cover the real situation of worldwide book sales going down. First we should note that 76% of all book sales took place in India, which probably means all of the book increases occurred in the big Indian temples. The BBTs in India really have no connection with BBT International, who is responsible for book publication in the western world. In fact the BBTs in India are run mostly by local temples. For example, the Kanada BBT is run by the Bangalore Ritvik temple, the Tamil BBT is officially ran by the Chennai temple (but is actually leased out to a private printer for his personal profit). the Malayalam BBT is run by the Coimbatore temple, the Oriya BBT is run by the Bhubaneswar temple, etc. All of these successful BBTs are completely independent from the BBT International, the people making this report of “increased worldwide book sales”.

What the BBT International is trying to do is hide behind the success of these independent and hard working Indian temples, who print and distribute their own books. 76% of the worldwide book distribution has absolutely nothing to do with BBT International. It is the hard work of independent teams of devotees in India. BBT International wants to take credit for their work to cover their own failing record in the west.

If we removed this 76% of book sales from the BBT International’s report, we would be left with news of worldwide drops in book distribution in key countries like the United States. Thus the BBT International’s real record for 2007 is that book sales continue to decline, while they waste their time in lawsuits chasing “easy money”.