Scientology strategy makes L. Ron Hubbard books available everywhere

By Noelle Skodzinski

Insights at a Glance

… from Blake Silber, President, Bridge Publications

What is your best management tactic? “As Bridge Publications is the publisher of L. Ron Hubbard’s non-fiction works, Bridge uses Mr. Hubbard’s administrative technology extensively. This covers many subjects, and one that he stresses is the training and establishing of personnel. Caring for and constantly building up and increasing the effectiveness and skill of one’s personnel is key.”

What is your biggest challenge as president? “Expanding fast enough to keep up with the constantly increasing demand for Mr. Hubbard’s works.”

What are you most focused on right now? “Distributing books into areas where they have never been available before—countries like Malaysia and Korea, where prior to 2009, most of L. Ron Hubbard’s books were not yet translated into the native tongue.”

In what are you investing most heavily? “We recently completed a project to automate every one of our labor-intensive manufacturing processes. Doing this made us more efficient and allowed our personnel to move to higher-skilled processes, with custom machines now doing these repetitive processes.”

What is Bridge Publications’ biggest strength? “Two things: the ever-increasing interest in L. Ron Hubbard’s books, and the drive and passion of the employees to produce and promote these books as far and wide as possible to help others as [they] have been helped.”

Scientology—for many, it may conjure up thoughts of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Kirstie Alley or Lisa Marie Presley, the Church of Scientology, some controversial discussions and media headlines, or the man behind the religion,  L. Ron Hubbard. But for very few does it elicit images of state-of-the-art digital printing machines, conveyer belts that criss-cross a 276,000-square-foot building, a stash of 35,000 miles of paper, or an inventory of millions of L. Ron Hubbard books awaiting shipping to any of a number of countries around the world. Perhaps now it will.