Althought this is unrelated to the topic in nature, and I have used up my two threads per day, I feel that the info given me today would be pertinent to the discussion.
I was talking to an elder about the downsizing the Society is undergoing. He told me himself, that the reason the Awake is being cut back, is because they have nothing more to write about.
He then told me that an outside company is now manufacturing and producing all the Society's tapes and CD's.
Of course, we're not told who's actually making what. All part of the secrecy of the cult - after all, they don't want anyone to think that outsourcing is not a sign of Jehovah's blessing.
When I last visited Bethel, I saw the CD recorders and tape decks myself - I thought they still made them, obviously what I was told today makes me wonder if Bethel is nothing more than a real estate corp than a printing one, if they are outsourcing.