The House of Justice
agrees that a single distribution agency in each country is desirable, but
neither it nor the Baha'i Publishing Trust should be required to carry stocks
of every Baha'i book published, nor should the friends be prohibited from
obtaining the books they want direct from the publisher, from bookshops, or
from elsewhere if they wish. If the books are correctly priced, it should normally
prove less expensive to the friends to buy them from the central distribution
agency rather than order them direct, but this aim should be achieved by market
pressure rather than by regulation.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 1982 written on
behalf of the Universal House of Justice)
