Adventist Publishing

[Gregory Matthews]

Adventist Publishing:  In the United States, SDA printed material was produced historically by either Pacific Press, the Review and Southern Publishing Association.  In more recent times Southern Publishing has ceased to exist.  The advantage to Church Administration has been a tighter control over what was printed for Adventist purposes.  This has resulted in a reduction of "cutting-edge" material.  In recent times, Avondale Press and Oak and Acorn. of the Pacific Union Conference, have begun publishing material that would probably not been published by the existing two SDA sources of material.

Last Sunday, I placed an order with Amazon for two books related to Ellen White, and sold on Amazon.  They were delivered to my home on Thursday, of the same week.  I noted that the published was Oak and Acorn.  But the actual printing had been done, as I understand it, by Amazon, and they were both printed on the same day that I ordered them.  Yes, Amazon offers that service to everyone.  No required inventory as actual sales result in printing individual books.  The resultant cost is less than one would need to pay if it had been printed by an SDA publisher. 

Folks, times are changing.  Do we as a denomination keep up?