Supporters of Pathfinder Press and the distribution of revolutionary books can celebrate two victories reached July 1.

Volunteers who are working on the project to scan, proofread, format, put together the graphics, check the indexes, and deliver a totally digitized book on CD reached their goal of completing 75 percent of all Pathfinder books by July 1. Leon Trotsky on Britain and Leon Trotsky on France were the last two titles completed in time to put the volunteers at their goal. The steering committee of the project, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, will announce a new target soon.

Pathfinder book sales also topped the 18-month goal of $500,000 by July 1. In all, $501,700 in revolutionary books and pamphlets were sold around the world between Jan. 1, 2001 and July 1, 2002. This figure includes all sales to Pathfinder bookstores, other commercial outlets, wholesale distributors, at international bookfairs, and through individual online purchases at www.pathfinderpress.com. Recently digitized books that had been out of stock for some time and for which there were substantial back orders helped increase sales.

A strong effort by Pathfinder bookstores pushed sales over the $500,000 goal just hours before the July 1 deadline. Representatives attending the recent BookExpo in Toronto and the national convention of the American Library Association in Atlanta also contributed to the last-month push, helping to lay the basis to expand Pathfinder’s customer base.

The Militant will feature reports on the accomplishments of the campaign to digitize Pathfinder books and on the sales effort in next week’s issue.  
 
 
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