ABC fulfils mandate of paying its own way
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article3792
- Author
- Carriere, Vianney (Sam), 1947-2014
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 1990 October
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 1990 October
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 8
- Page
- 9
- Notes
- In 1967 General Synod decreed that the Anglican Book Centre, a perennial money loser until that time, be given a new mandate to become self-sufficient or to shut down. At that time, the Rev. Michael Lloyd, publisher to the Anglican Church of Canadaand director of the Anglican Book Centre (ABC), recalled that "ABC owed the banks about $213,000 and General Synod another $200,000." "Today, ABC not only pays its way, but manages to return money to General Synod every year." "Along the way, ABC has become a successful publisher of books, some of which, by any Canadian standards, qualify as best sellers. In a sense, ABC owes its success as a book publisher to the BAS, something which Mr. Lloyd says he and others foresaw in the mid-1970s. `We felt that a new book of liturgy would be wanted in the next few years and we wanted this book to be produced and published here in Canada rather than us relying on it being published in Great Britain as had always been done in the past,' Mr. Lloyd recalls."
- Subjects
- Anglican Book Centre
- Religious bookstores - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Publishing
- Christian publishers and publishing - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Book of Alternative Services
- Lloyd, Michael (Michael John), 1935-2013
- Location
- General Synod Archives