What is the point of control? What do they want?

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Originally Posted by Zezima

$8 a month or $80 a year, not a lot of revenue to be had. It’s an interesting move no doubt. It’s like when they added that giant 30 foot tv advertising ministry books at the conference center in anaheim.

I believe there are at least 1,500 localities around the world....I think? $96*1,500 = ~$150,000. If you assume at least 5 saints from each locality get it on top of that, on average, that's over $750,000 in addition. They'll probably get around $1 million per year from it, is my guess.

I'm presuming this isn't some massively profitable venture, but just whatever they can do to offset what are probably waning book sales. They've backed themselves into a corner with only one finite pool to draw from......