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 3 March, 1983, written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to the Participants at the Montreal Publishing
Conference in 1982)
