I never said that LRH book sales never boomed. They most certainly did on occasion, but those sales never translated into booming orgs.
No, where orgs boomed, it was through the diligent efforts of staff, who rolled up their sleeves and did one on one dissemination to get new people on board.
I'll grant that the two book booms you mentioned did bring in lots of people, but those were singular campaigns, and not the normal course of business for Scientology as a whole.
You say you can't figure me out. What's to figure? I'm just an ordinary putz who walked into the clutches of a criminal, mind bending cult for forty years. Like all the rest of you putzes, I'm still sorting out that experience.
I don't think you are getting what I am trying to say and what Mike Rinder says, without getting too literal.
What I am trying to say is something like hubbard's policy on Books make Booms is rhetoric or persuasion to try to convince staff to sell books because if they read Hubbard they will become enlightened and come in for services to go clear and then OT, and then the org will boom in stats.
Anybody who becomes interested in dianetics or scientology has to read a book, and anybody who wishes to continue has to go on course and read those books.
Hubbard made his money from book royalties. The more books sold, the more money hubbard made. Plus, Hubbard's policy on pay for staff allowed him to just collect a percentage of book sales. But guess what, all book sales were not to go to staff pay, only book commission to a staff member for selling the book, but the rest were to go to hubbard's cut and the rest to resell more books. Clever dude he was.
DM same shit.
If you don't understand what I'm say'in, just ask, maybe I can reword it.